Webmail Backup: How to Take Mail Backups

In addition to crucial advantages listed before, Handy Backup has some other useful functions, turning this program into a powerful and capable webmail backup software solution. Let us explain some of these functions here:

• Encrypting and compressing. You can compress your data into a ZIP archive and/or encrypt messages with a 128-bit BlowFish algorithm, providing both security and quickness when transferring your data through a network or when keeping the messages in public vaults.
• Different backup methods. Use full, incremental, differential or mixed (full/differential) backup for your data. Using the methods of non-full backup can save time of job and storage space. In addition, you can save many versions of same backup, as well as create automatic timestamps.
• Controlling capabilities. Start your tasks as Windows service, making no distraction for users working on the machine. Take detailed reports and notifications on your email about all job

Here is an example of creating a webmail backup task. The example uses the Gmail server as a webmail source, but the overall logic remains unchanged for any other messaging server existed. All you can need to change are the server name and, possibly, some minor parameters. Well, let us start!

1. Create a new Handy Backup task. On Step 1 of a task wizard, select a backup task.
2. On Step 2, choose the E-mail plug-in from the Email group on the left.

3. Activate the connection creation dialog. Enter here the next information here:

• The configuration name (i.e. Gmail Backup);
• The IMAP server name and connection port (after a colon);
• Your username and password to access a webmail account.


4. Click OK and return to data selection. You will see a list of folders in your E-mail account.

5. Select data you need to back up by checking/unchecking the boxes before the data name.
6. Again, click OK and return to the Step 2 window to select another data if you need it.
7. Continue creating a backup task as described in the User Manual.

You can also restore webmail backup data to the same or completely different server using the IMAP protocol. To do it, create a restoration task and select a backup.hbi file from the backup vault location on Step 2. This will restore your webmail database to its original place.

Note: You can change the restore location, to effectively clone or replicate your webmail messages!