Backup our data held by Google

Over the past few years, Google has managed to buying startups and developing their products, to create a good online office suite. It consists of a text and spreadsheet, a tool for creating presentations, calendar, one of the best web-based email services.

Meanwhile, Google implicitly trusted hardly worth it. Firstly, there were several times fail when the data is temporarily unavailable (the company later restored them from a backup). In the Second, Google blocks and removes suspicious accounts without too much thought. Do not think that this applies only to some spammers: complaints Account lockdown and Lockdown in sector you can find a well-known developers and designers in the blogs.

To learn how to make a backup copy of the data stored in the Google, says blog Google Operating System.

Your contacts in Gmail can be exported to CSV or vCard format. To do this, click on the link http://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts and click in the upper right corner of the link Export (Export).

Google Calendar calendars can be saved in one

iCal formatAnd can be all together. To do this, click on the following link http://www.google.com/calendar/exporticalzip.

Exports from Google Docs is not very convenient. Each document can be saved in several formats (PDF, RTF, Word, etc.), but when it comes to downloading multiple files, then is available only one way: we select the documents you want to save, then from the menu choose More actions Save as HTML (Zipped). The result is a set of HTML-pages (documents), compressed in ZIP-archive.

Saving blog on Blogger. On the page draft.blogger.com Go to your blog's settings (Settings). There you will find a link on the export journal (Export blog). This feature works in a test mode.

Google Bookmarks Bookmarks can be saved as HTML-file. Search History exported to RSS-feed: http://www.google.com/history/lookup? q = & output = rss & num = 1000 (Replace the 1000 number of elements you want to export.

Google Reader subscriptions can be exported to OPML format understandable to all RSS-aggregators (you must go to Settings> Import / Export).

In the Gmail backup has its own peculiarities. You can not save drafts and labels. Own way to create backup copies of correspondence is not so little: American Lifehacker posted about a few options using ThunderBird and fetchmail.