[josscrowcroft]

"Services I'd Pay For", May 2013 Edition:

1) A hands-off, hassle-free service that connects to all your Google 'properties' and backs up everything every hour, on the hour, and allows easy importing into a selection of similar replacement services if/when the Googleplex smites me down.

2) See 1).

[johnsbrayton]

My Mac app, CloudPull, closely resembles that description. It runs in the background on your Mac, backing up Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Reader. It performs backups every hour, and keeps snapshots for 90 days.

You can download CloudPull from: http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/

CloudPull is free for a single account. For $9.99, you can upgrade to get premium features including support for up to ten Google accounts.

John

[mikro2nd]

Any plans for a Linux port? Seriously, I'd love to pay you, but don't do iAnything (and for much the same reasons that I don't trust Google with much of anything these days.)

[josscrowcroft]

Fantastic, thanks for the heads up.

[eloisant]

* Buy a Synology NAS * Buy a domain name * Setup a mail server on your NAS (you get Roundcube in 2 clicks) * Forward emails from gmail to your home email * Backup to Amazon Glacier (in a few clicks on a Synology)

Now when a problem arise, just stop using GMail and use Roundcube directly.

[junto]

Did you install Roundcube directly via DSM, or indirectly using the DSM Owncloud plugin?

[eloisant]

Directly. Would I gain anything by going through Owncloud?

[junto]

Not sure to be honest. Maybe an integrated login?