This tutorial will focus on exporting your Gmail hosted mail and backup the data with GoodSync to a location of your choosing.
If you haven't already, download and install GoodSync.
1) Navigate to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1
2)Login with the google account that is associated to the Gmail that wish to export.
3) When presented with all of the options for export “Select None” then scroll until you see the slider for “Mail” and select it.
4) Once the slider for “Mail” is selected click “Next” at the bottom of the screen
5) Google allows us the option of choosing the maximum size of the export from 2gb to their limit of 50gb. Select the maximum size that you would like.
6) Next, under “Choose Destination type” we can set a destination for the data that is exported from Google. Select “Send download link via email” so that we can download the export directly to our computer.
OTHER OPTIONS
- Download link
- Gdrive
- Dropbox
- Onedrive
- Box
7) Finally, click on “Create Archive” to export the data. Google make take up to several days to compile the data and send a download link to the email that you are exporting.
Once you have received your data we can proceed to backup the data to another location of your choosing. We will be using Google Drive as the backup location for our example. Note: (For all supported locations please click here)
8) In the Job menu, select "New" or click the "New Job Button" in the toolbar.
9) In the New GoodSync Job prompt:
- Enter the name for your new Job.
- Select Backup or Synchronize as your Job type.
Next we must select the endpoints for our job.
10) For the Left side choose the file that we have exported from Google. To do so, check the boxes marked "Select Multiple Folders" and "Show Files and Links" then check the box next to the file.
11) On the Right side we can choose any endpoint we desire. In our example we will be using a Google Drive location Note: (For all supported options please click here).
12) Click “Analyze” to confirm that the exported file will be the only file moved. Then click “Sync” to commit the sync.
Note: (to configure the job with automation or other settings please click here)