Last Updated: May 27, 2020
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· austinginder

Gmail backup to Dropbox

Download python source of <a href="http://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/">got-your-back</a> and extract contents somewhere. I store in the following location:

~/Dropbox/Backup/Personal/Gmail/gyb/

Create the following command file and save it somewhere.

backup-gmail.command

cd ~/Dropbox/Backup/Personal/Gmail/gyb/
python gyb.py --email austinginder@gmail.com --backup --folder ~/Dropbox/Backup/Personal/Gmail/austinginder

Use crontab to schedule the command file to run on a daily basis. I'm using CronniX on OSX. Here is the script I'm running

sh ~/Dropbox/Backup/_jobs/backup-gmail.command > ~/Dropbox/Backup/_jobs/backup-gmail.txt

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Thanks for the tip.

A few months ago I switched to online service call CloudHQ, https://www.cloudhq.net. I am no longer running the backup script. In addition backing up Gmail, it's also backing up my Evernote and Google Drive to Dropbox.

over 1 year ago ·