Email
is one of the most used communication channel for several businesses and
individuals. What would do you do if you do not have access to email? Email
outages do occur and at times when you shift to new system or change location
you can miss out on some crucial data. There
are various cloud and web services which is also inclusive of email backup.
DropMyEmail is an automatic Email backup service. Just login with Twitter, Facebook, Google account to start and
within seconds backup would start. It would work with several email accounts
and after first backup it would keep the backup in sync. Just enter email ID
and password. It would even backup email attachments as well as allow you to
filter via file type for quick sharing and searching. It also supports email
migration if you want to move the email to a new account or restore to previous
one.
Mailkeepr helps to keep the email
organized. It has secured SSL encryption which would encrypt emails prior to
being stored. Email is backed up on
multiple servers so there is no risk of losing the access. You can even backup
attachments by sending them via email account.
Backupify protects email as well as the
entire data in the Google Apps account. Just add it via Google Apps market and
application would check for latest data which would be copied to the cloud. This
way you can restore the date with single click if required. The service has
both search and management tools for the data.
CloudAlly provides a backup service which
covers the Yahoo Mail, Google account, Office 365, Salesforce, Google Apps and
AWS. Data can be exported as well as stored locally or even restored to Google
account without overwriting what is already there. The data migrations between
Gmail accounts are also supported. Daily data is backed up as well as
encrypted.
In
case if the emails service provider fails, then you would need a different
solution like secondary MX provider. This gives you access as well as keeps the
mail secure for several days while the primary service gets back on the feed.
The two services which offer that includes DNS Made Easy and Cudamail.
Offline Backup
The
above services are online backup services. In case you want to backup Gmail
alone then it can be done offline via Gmvault which is available for Mac,
Windows and Linux. It would back up Gmail as well as copes well with IMAP.
Encryption and restoring of emails can be done. This solution is open sourced. Email
back is in the evolving process as solution meant for enterprises.
