Google, give my data back!

Review of ways to preserve your data from Google products

Members are divided into two categories: those that do not already do backups, and those who are already doing.

The direction of the computer industry of recent years increasingly encourages us to use cloud storage and services. And fiddle plays the ubiquitous Google, as a skilled magician pulling out of the hose more and more arguments for a full transition to online. Gmail is becoming the default mail client, Google Docs is already a serious competition usual office suite, and Google Reader rightfully belongs to the title of the program easy to read news. And promoted by Google's new operating system Chrome OS in general is completely built on a cloud-based technologies.

However, as is always the case in life, this coin has a flip side. The more people use online services, the remoteness become their personal data. Personal and business correspondence, documents and useful links, photos - everything is stored somewhere on a remote server access which can be disrupted by a variety of reasons - from the banal to breakage due to sudden blockage account. Therefore, we offer you a comprehensive list of tools for storing data from the cloud-based Google services on your hard drive.

google Docs

You can save the document to your hard drive directly from the interface of this online office suite like one by one, and all at once. To do this, select any file in the menu Actions select Download. A window will appear Transformation, and loadingConsisting of two tabs. To backup all your documents go to the tab All files and download all your documents in a ZIP archive.

Gmail

C mail service, everything is very simple. It is enough to set it to forward your mail to the regular e-mail client such as The Bat, Thunderbird or Mail Windows. To do this, go into your Gmail settings and tab Forwarding and POP / IMAP mark item Enable POP for all the letters (Even for those who have already downloaded). After that, you just need to set up your desktop email client according to setup instructions and ready - all of your correspondence will be stored on your computer.

google Reader

If you have a reader a few dozen or even hundreds of feeds that you work with on a daily basis, the loss of this source of information will be very difficult to fill. Therefore it will not be superfluous to create a backup copy of their subscriptions as OPML file. To do this, open the Google Reader setting, then tab Import and Export and click on the link Export subscriptions as OPML file. Now you will always be able to easily restore the list of your RSS subscriptions in any other service or desktop software.

google Calendar

To tell the truth, I have long been using this service for the planning of his time. Some effort on putting all the important dates, I now always get a pre birthday reminders relatives and employees, holidays, anniversaries, meetings, current and so on, so that sometimes even manages to surprise everyone with his unreal memory and attention :). So I would be very sad to lose all the data. Fortunately, you can easily create a backup copy of the calendar. To do this, go to calendar settingsAnd then on the tab, calendars find a link export calendars.

conclusion

We all have become accustomed to Google - the invincible hero who is always there and is reliable as a rock. However, in the world there is nothing permanent in a far point, an unfortunate technical error may suddenly take away your important data. Therefore, make a backup of your online documents now. Just in case.