Gmail Backup - Reason

GMail blackout - Google apologizes

filip.jurcicek — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:44:11 +0000

Google's GMail was unavailable for several hours today. Problems occurred in early morning and it was not a local issue. GMail began to operate again around noon.

The last GMail's outage was in August 2008. Users did not have access to their mails for several of hours.

Did you already get your backup? I did! ;-)

You can find more details at:

Outage of Google e-mail service

filip.jurcicek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:06:01 +0000

If you noticed yesterday outage of the Google e-mail service, it was an error on your side. Google had a bug in the system of contacts and it caused malfunction of the web interface of Gmail. Failure of the service lasted approximately two hours and affected mainly web interface. Users, who accessed their mailbox in alternative ways, probably did not notice any problems.

This time you do not have to worry about the e-mails, the archive has not been affected by this bug. Bug was removed and Gmail is fully functioning now. Although there is no data loss, we should be careful.

Why you should backup your GMail account

jan.svec — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:36:28 +0000

There is a lot of posts around the internet which refers to the e-mail lost caused by the outage of the service provider. If you are using the GMail, you have to keep in mind that GMail is still marked as BETA (see the small notice bellow the GMail logo). Today I have found this article about the large GMail disaster.

Have you ever lost any emails from your Gmail account?

filip.jurcicek — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:50 +0000

This is quite old story (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061230-8524.html) but still important. They report that many users lost emails form their Gmail account. What about you?

They recomend to regulary backup emails stored in the Gmail account. I will cite the source:

Gmail users should consider using the service's POP functionality for backup purposes. For those of us that depend on consistent and reliable mail access for business, mail backups are as important as document backups if not more so.