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"Backup, Backup, Backup"

This post was written by Richard Georges: "How To Backup Your Gmail Account To YOUR Hard Drive. It is the Sunday before Labor Day, and She Who Must Be Obeyed is getting the hotdogs and hamburgers ready for tomorrow, and I am getting the pool and backyard ready, with the help of a couple of recalcitrant teenagers. (Were we this afraid of hard work in our youth?) (of course, we were). In addition, I am backing up my hard drive, which I try to do weekly. You never know. Now that we are all in the cloud for many things, we assume that the host providers have many redundant backups, and they usually do. However, wouldn't you feel more comfortable with a copy of your important stuff from the cloud on a local drive? Take GMail, for example. I have hundreds of megabytes of important email on Google's servers. What if they became inaccessible? This free little utility saves them all to a drive on your system (I used a little extra SD card I had handy). So, before you go outside this weekend, backup your GMail. You'll be glad you did."

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Source: Future Lawyer, 5 September 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).