Following a Google glitch that saw thousands of users inconvenienced at the weekend after losing all of their emails, contacts and folders, industry observers recommend backing up your gmail account. For many start-up businesses and business people on the move gmail has become an essential business tool. Losing your contacts and correspondence could have severe impacts on your work flow.

Heres how to back up your gmail account:

  • sign into your gmail email account
  • on the top right hand corner of the page you will see Settings> click
  • select Forwarding and POP/IMAP
  • 1. choose Enable POP for all mail (even mail thats already been downloaded)
  • 2. choose gmail copy in inbox
  • 3. click configuration instructions and then open your Outlook or other email software and follow the instructions
  • Go back to gmail and select save changes and your done.

Moving forward, you will now get copies of your gmail in your alternate email account.

For more advice, see the Gmail Help section where further instructions can be found. Alternatively, you can purchase software from third party providers that will back up your gmail messages.

Google says less than one percent (0.02) of its gmail users were effected by the data loss and has been busy restoring peoples accounts since Sunday.  Observers place the figure at approximately an estimated 340,000 people. Some Google Apps customers were also effected, striking a blow for Google as it works to promote its new Google Apps and other business services.

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