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Tag: email google apps backup

Posted on 2014-01-18

gmvault to backup and restore your gmail apps or gmail accounts

how to backup or backup and sync users in gmail using gmvault.

Mac or Linux – although I think on my Mac.

Best to do it in a virtual environment, by which I mean virtualenv

cd /
sudo easy_install pip

mkdir venvs
cd venvs
mkdir gmvault
cd ..
sudo chown -R venvs/gmvault

#make the virtual environment
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# this just gives your regular user access to the directory tree because sudo gets old
sudo chown -R eschipul:wheel venvs
cd venvs/gmvault/
source venv/bin/activate

# You should now see (venv) in front of your prompt
# I had downloaded the file, which is hard to find BTW, to my Downloads folder so I had to move it.
mv ~/Downloads/gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz /venvs/gmvault/

tar zxvf gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz
cd gmvault-v1.8.1-beta
cd bin
./gmvault sync eschipul@schipul.com

# you have two options – you can use oauth which I did. Or if you are doing a scheduled sync

# restoring a gmail account looks like this:
./gmvault restore MYNEWfoo.bar@gmail.com

credits:
http://gmvault.org/gmail_setup.html
http://gmvault.org/in_depth.html

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