Email backup application is an all-in-one tool that allows you to create backup of almost every common email application or email service. The tool supports the backup of different email services like Libero Mail, KPN Mail, Rogers, Shaw Mail, Gmail, iCloud Mail.com, Mail.ru, MDaemon Cloud, NAVER, Office 365, Aol, Windows Live Mail, Web mail servers, business email hosting services etc. Horcrux will automatically look for such a directory, and if it exists, will use this as the destination path 2. For example, if you connect a drive called offsite2, and add a directory backup, you can then add an exclude file offsite2-exclude to your Horcrux directory, and the backup files will automatically be sent to /Volumes/offsite2/backup. Email Backup Wizard 10.1 Corporate / Enterprise; Email Backup Wizard 10.1; Advik Email Backup Wizard 9.2; ZOOK Email Backup Wizard 6.7; Horcrux Email Backup 2.9.3 (Mac OS X) MiniTool Partition Wizard 10.3 Technician WinPE ISO; Wizard - 10 UHQ JPEG; Email Marketing A-Z: Easy Email Marketing 1, 2, 3; Email Newsletter - Athena #10; Email. @DariM since a Horcrux is some kind of backup, the usual rule for backups applies; they should be stored far away from the original, to prevent accidental destruction. There wouldn’t be much sense to wear it, even if people are unaware of what it is.
duply is a frontend for the mighty duplicity magic. duplicity is a python based shell application that makes encrypted incremental backups to remote storages. Different backends like ftp, sftp, imap, s3 and others are supported. See duplicity manpage for a complete list of backends and features.
duply simplifies running duplicity with cron or on command line by:
keeping recurring settings in profiles per backup job
automated import/export of keys between profile and keyring
enabling batch operations eg. backup_verify_purge
executing pre/post scripts
precondition checking for flawless duplicity operation
Since version 1.5.0 all duplicity backends are supported. Hence the name changed from ftplicity to duply.
History (from ftplicity to duply)
In 2006 the german computer magazine c't released the tool ftplicity under GPL2. It was a convenience shell front end for encrypted ftp backups with the python based backup tool duplicity. Shortly after major changes in duplicity broke the software and several parties released fixes on their private websites. duply still called ftplicity started out as one of them.
The latest version of c't ftplicity 1.2 (21.10.2009) can be found on heise.de.
But soon further functionality found it's way into the patch and because the maintenance of the original author was sparsely the project ftplicity on sourceforge was created. The idea was to spread the word and find contributors in order to maintain and enhance ftplicity further.
Since then ftplicity underwent further improvement until in version 1.5 the limitation to the file transfer protocol as only backend was removed. Because of this the project was renamed to a more generic name (not advertising ftp). duply (simple duplicity) was born.
Feel free to browse the changelog for an overview of duply's history.
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Alternatives
Command line
Backupninja
Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities.
duplicity-unattended for S3
Configurable script to run unattended backups on S3.
Shell scripts
A collection of scripts using duplicity for specific backup needs can be found on
Using a search engine for 'script' 'duplicity' will also provide you with a plethora of alternatives.
GUI: Déjà Dup
a convenience front end designed to be a two button solution. Get it at http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup and find informative screenshots at http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Screenshots.
Command line (older & probably unmaintained)
Dupinanny
A python based frontend with config files.
Horcrux
A bash wrapper for Duplicity’s most commonly-used options. It also includes functionality to check a restored backup to periodically ensure your backups are working.
MBKP
Another bash wrapper with a modular approach. Supports DB backup functions and job concurrency skipping.
ScyCover duply
A duply fork sporting HTML reports via mail and profiles based on global configuration. Optional web interface.
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John Brayton of Golden Hill Software has informed us that he is discontinuing CloudPull, his Mac utility for backing up data from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Drive (see “Back Up Your Google Data with CloudPull,” 6 March 2012). As I noted in that review, it’s unlikely that Google itself would lose your data, but:
It may be protected by nothing but a password (unless you use 2FA)
You could delete data accidentally
An app with access to your Google data could corrupt or delete data
And so, for the last 7 years, many TidBITS readers have been relying on CloudPull to make local backups of their Google-hosted data in file formats that Mac apps can open.
So what happened? Google is tightening security on access to Gmail, requiring apps to get permission to write to a user’s account by providing justification for write access. CloudPull doesn’t need write access at all, but Google offers no read-only permission level that would allow CloudPull to back up Gmail. Google denied Brayton’s appeal, and the alternative approaches he identified to keep CloudPull working would require more time and effort than he could justify.
As a result, Brayton has discontinued CloudPull and removed it from sale. The app should continue working through about 15 May 2019. Existing backups will remain intact after CloudPull can no longer access your Google account, but it won’t be able to update those backups.
Alternative Google Backup Solutions
So what can you do if you currently rely on CloudPull, or if you’ve decided that you need to back up your Google data now?
Gmail Backup
Backing up Gmail is the easiest part of CloudPull to replace because everyone has Apple’s Mail. It can access Gmail via IMAP, downloading and storing local copies of all messages and attachments by default.
If you don’t trust Mail entirely, you could use C-Command Software’s EagleFiler or Moth Software’s Mail Archiver X to archive a copy of everything outside of Mail. Or go directly to the IMAP source with Horcrux, which is designed to back up email to your Mac.
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Google Calendar and Google Contacts Backup
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Mac users probably view their Google Calendar and Google Contacts information in Apple’s Calendar and Contacts apps. The data is local but updated frequently enough that problems on the server side would be reflected locally quickly. Luckily, both apps can save local archives with the File > Export command.
A more automated solution would be to switch to BusyMac’s BusyCal and BusyContacts, which also support Google’s calendaring and contact services. Both feature a File > Create Backup command and can automatically make and maintain a set of backups in standard ICS and VCF formats.
Google Drive Backup
I’m unaware of another utility like CloudPull that creates local backups of Google data in standard formats. Google’s Backup and Sync app creates Finder-visible versions of Google Drive files in a Google Drive folder on your Mac, but it doesn’t convert word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files from Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides into formats that you could open in Apple’s iWork apps or the Microsoft Office apps.
Another option is Google Takeout, which will create DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX versions of all your Google Drive files while giving you a copy of everything in your Google account. It’s not a bad solution, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to automate it short of using Keyboard Maestro to open the Web page and click the buttons. And even then you have to wait for hours or possibly days for Google to create the archive and notify you that you can download it. It’s a good thing to do periodically, but not an approach for everyday backups.
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Unified Backup or G Suite Backup
If you want a single unified backup solution for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Drive, or if you subscribe to Google’s full G Suite (which includes all those apps), there are a few options.
For individuals, Upsafe offers a cloud-based backup service for your Google data. It has a free tier that maxes out at 3 GB of storage; for more data than that, Upsafe charges $2 per month. Spinbackup offers a similar service, and also backs up Google Photos. An account that can back up only 4 GB and has other limitations is free; otherwise, Spinbackup costs $4 per month for 50 GB of data, with an additional $0.03 per month for every extra gigabyte. If you’ve tried either of these services, let us know in the comments how they’ve worked out for you.
Other services are targeted at G Suite subscribers and don’t (or no longer) support individual use. They include Backupify, Spanning, and SysCloud, and pricing hovers around $4 per month per user. They’d be appropriate for small offices that have standardized on G Suite.
What other ideas do you have for protecting your Google data against hackers, mistakes, and rogue apps?