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…Gmail account as .eml files. This seems to be the easiest and most straightforward way for me. [0] https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

comment by Cockbrand · 2025-12-31 · in Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back - Open source - Resume (so backups/restores will eventually complete) Honorable mention: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/ - Not open source - GUI with index: nice for searching…

comment by Leftium · 2025-05-10 · in Gmail to SQLite

…restore. - However, it has a simple UI that allows you to search/view your emails. [GYB]: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back/wiki [MailStore]: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/

comment by Leftium · 2025-01-10 · in Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account

I use https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back for gmail

comment by rectalogic · 2024-12-21 · in Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails?

This is why I export my emails to my laptop on a regular basis with GYB ( https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back ) even though I am a paying Google for Business customer. The real controversy here however is the dependency on a US phone…

comment by kylehotchkiss · 2024-11-07 · in Google banned me from Google Voice

…but if you just care about backing up email within a Google Workspace, check out Got Your Back: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back It is, I believe, written by a Google employee. It's a really great CLI tool that allows you to dump…

comment by trog · 2024-06-17 · in Why Google Takeout is sooo bad

…switched to GYB (which can resume and successfully restored/transferred nearly all of the emails): https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back [1]: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/

comment by Leftium · 2024-03-20 · in Ask HN: How do you handle mbox files?

…[3]: https://jhart99.com/cloudflare-outbound-email/#outbound-emai... [4]: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

comment by pixelmonkey · 2022-12-24 · in Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?

…I had to use mbsync with IMAP (gmvault does not work anymore with Python 3, and I didn't try yet https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back ).

comment by karteum · 2022-03-30 · in Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”

This is better for Gmail backups. https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

comment by dicknuckle · 2022-02-08 · in Ask HN: How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?

…You can also import into other email services, although that route has more rough edges. [1]: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

comment by londons_explore · 2022-01-28 · in Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts

There's also a fantastic tool by Jay Lee that will do it in an automated fashion https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

comment by SteveNuts · 2022-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

I suggest using https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back for gmail. It works better because it can copy rules, labels, stars, etc.

comment by londons_explore · 2022-01-08 · in Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk

…and by the time this (or whatever solution you want) is ready for an import, you'll be done. 0. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

comment by h4waii · 2021-08-29 · in Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.

comment by jackpea · 2020-12-20 · in Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

This is what I use. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

comment by pnutjam · 2020-12-06 · in An update to storage policies across your Google Account

…do drive as well... This works for email and says it will let you upload to another account. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

comment by pnutjam · 2020-11-02 · in Google users locked out after 15 years' use

…run via a cron job and backup files to a local folder. I also use this to backup my gmail account: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back I store these on a local OpenSuse box I use as a NAS. It has a local drive, with a 2nd drive that…

comment by pnutjam · 2020-10-24 · in Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption

I've found GYB works quite well: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back It's created by the developer of GAM - a popular tool you may have heard of, for managing G Suite.

comment by 7ewis · 2020-06-04 · in IMAP Email Backup

Sorry, I meant GYB: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

comment by Daegalus · 2020-04-12 · in Moving Away from Gmail

They do have another API that is REST. At least one gmail backup tool is already using it ... https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki

comment by selfishgene · 2020-01-28 · in Thunderbird’s New Home

…their own API project. GYB has such functionality built-in since 1.20, see the release notes: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/releases/tag/v1.20 For gmvault, you have to create it manually: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues…

comment by aepiepaey · 2019-06-28 · in Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

Does anyone know if this will have any impact on Gmail backup tools such as: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back Or the long term sustainability of such projects? I've found gmail's own data export tools to not work at all for any…

comment by dazbradbury · 2019-06-28 · in Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

Seems to be the same issue for Gmail backup tools, eg: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/issues/195 Frustrating, given Google's own takeout tool doesn't work on larger inboxes! This is basically going to destroy the tools that were…

comment by dazbradbury · 2019-03-22 · in Tell HN: Google removing Gmail access from IFTTT

…backups of the archive to Backblaze B2 to add yet another storage location and version index. [0] https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki [1] https://restic.net

comment by SpaethCo · 2019-03-18 · in Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

I’ve had good luck using https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back to backup gmail.

comment by dustinmr · 2018-12-11 · in Ask HN: How to backup emails?

…open source backup tool in Python that can be easily run as a cron job and backs up all your email. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back Also, Google Takeout has a full MBox export of your GMail account that may be worth running…

comment by pixelmonkey · 2018-08-05 · in G Suite Horror Story

Better the document than the account! Anyone know of a Google Drive equivalent for https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki , which implements backup and restore for GMail? Closest I could find was https://github.com/odeke-em/drive ,…

comment by j_s · 2017-10-31 · in Draft of a story about wildlife crime was frozen for violating Google Docs' TOS

…source utilities to work with the data, but most are one-offs. Here's one that didn't appear to be: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki

comment by j_s · 2017-09-11 · in Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security strategy

GYB does that, too: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki#selective-back...

comment by chrislund · 2016-11-18 · in Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account

I have been using both GYB ( https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back ) and mbsync ( http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html ) for this. How is gmvault better/different?

comment by ljosa · 2016-11-18 · in Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account