AOL backup means nowadays "backup AOL mail", as once popular AOL messenger is obsolete. In this article, we will show how to backup AOL emails using Handy Backup, the powerful program for data keeping and restoration, with its built-in E-mail plug-in and the IMAP data exchange protocol.
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Here is a short instruction describing how to backup AOL mail by creating a task to save some AOL email folder content to external hard drive.
Note: On Step 1, you can also select the advanced mode option. This option allows you doing extra steps and settings for making a backup task, including triggering a task by plugging a related USB external drive onto a PC.
* To use AOL email in Handy Backup program, you must generate AOL password by on-site security app. See the next division of this article for more detailed description.
To get an AOL password, please open the AOL homepage in a browser and run a password application (go to "Account Info" → "Account Security"→ "Generate app password").
Select "Other App", create name (example, Handy Backup App) and generate a password. After receiving a password, you can use it with Handy Backup, as described above.
Attention: Please write and keep generated password somewhere, as you cannot access this password later from the website, nor through any application!
Create a restoration task on Step 1, instead of a backup task. On Step 2, select a file backup.hbi from your backup folder. This file contains all the data about your backup, including the default place to restore AOL email backup.
Note: We recommend to restore AOL email backup data to some other folder than those already existed in the destination account. This may be principal for protecting emails from an accidental loss.
Backup AOL email folder content requires no third-party bridge software. You can save and recover AOL email backup directly, reducing both time and used storage space by avoiding creating transitive copies of downloaded emails. You can even restore AOL email backup to another mail server!
Handy Backup allows you scheduling AOL backup to start at exactly defined time and to repeat these tasks with an interval from minutes to several months. It also provides built-in tools for AOL encryption, partial (incremental, differential and mixed) backup, storing several versions of the same backup, etc.
For AOL email backup, the Handy Backup utility provides many storage types. You can backup to Google Drive, save the message database on a local disk, an FTP server, a cloud or an external drive. You can also freely read, modify and copy unencrypted AOL email backup stored in EML format.
In addition to AOL backup features described above, Handy Backup provides some other possibilities and tools for smooth, quick and reliable backup, including:
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