As the days go by, we accumulate different types of documents such as photos, videos and audio files on our phones, tablets or personal computers without thinking about what would happen if these equipment were to fail.
A good recommendation is make a backup using thewhich is very reliable and offers storage guarantees, avoiding having a hard time not having access to things we need, especially important documents and files from work, university or personal activities.
Making a backup is not complicated, but if you don’t know how to do it, in this course we are going to teach you each of the steps you must take, you will also learn how to restore and even migrate emails from one account to another.
How much storage space do I have for Gmail backups?
Backup copies made in They go into the 15 GB free cloud storage that each user who creates an account has. Before June 2021, many of the files being saved were in the unlimited space offered by the company. After this time, if any user runs out of space, the only option is to contract one of the monthly or annual plans offered by Google to expand storage.
What are the benefits of backing up with Gmail? Reasons to do it
Backing up is one way to protect your files, but it’s also allows them to always be available to workfacilitating the search for any of the members of an organization in cases of emergency.
Now we list some of the reasons you have to make an online backup:
- No information is lost: In case of failures, theft of a device or any unforeseen event, you will have your documents available.
- It’s automatic: with the proper configuration, you can tell the system how often to save files.
- Access from anywhere: We can open the document we need to see no matter where we are.
- quick pairing: The files you upload can be viewed on any connected device without having to do anything additional.
What data can I save in a Gmail backup?
In you can make a copy of everything you want as long as you do not exceed the established free limit. As for the emails, you have the option to save them all, including those that are marked as spam or in the trash. The same applies to any important folders, pictures, videos, or audio files on your computer.
The same happens in the case of using a mobile device. Backups have the possibility of store the various documents and files you have selected to back up.
We show you the steps you must follow to create a backup on your device easily and quickly
Have you thought about what would happen to your files if your computer gets infected or a major failure occurs? If there is no backup, they will most likely be lost. And creating a backup in the cloud or on a removable device is not complicated.
We bring you the steps you must take both on your computer and on Android to protect your documents:
Of files and folders
In the computer, You can easily upload the files you have stored as well as the different foldersto keep them in a safer place.
The way to do it is the following:
- In the computer, enter the browser and open the address drive.google.com.
- In the left sidebarin the upper corner press the function “New”.
- Once you click there you will see two options: “Upload file” or “Upload folder”.
- Choose the option what do you want.
- Select the file or folder from the computer and at the bottom of the screen it will show you how the process is going.
In case you are going to upload a file or folder from an Android mobile, the steps you have to take to complete the task properly are the following:
- Opens the application of “Google Drive”.
- press at the symbol “+” which is to add files.
- mark on “Go up”.
- search and select the files you want to back up.
Of photos, videos and music
we tell you now the ways you have to upload from your computer any photo, video or audio file to have them saved in the Google cloud.
The steps you must take are the following if you want to do it from the browser:
- Opens the address photos.google.com.
- You have to login again to verify your identity.
- Click on the top right bar “Go up”.
- Select the photos of the computer you want to upload.
- Click on “Open” and it will begin to load.
A second way to do it from the computer is by downloading and configuring the desktop application, for which you must follow the following route:
- Download the google drive app for desktop.
- install the app on the computer.
- After finish the installationaccess with your credentials Google.
- Select photos or videos that you want to back up.
- at the end select “Done” and “Save”.
- Though delete any of the uploaded files from your computerThese will will keep in the cloud.
Learn step by step how to restore a Gmail backup on any device quickly and easily
Maybe you are thinking that bring back what you’ve sent to your Google account it’s very complicated. But the reality is that it is not like that and now We are going to show you how you can do it from a mobile device.
Go for it:
on android
By default, and once the phone is configured, A backup copy is being made to Google Drivebackup that serves to put the smartphone back as it was before performing a factory reset.
The steps you must take are the following:
- When you turn on the phone after restoring the default settings, It will ask you to enter a Google account.
- Put the same one you were using before restoring or on an older phone.
- Click on “Menu” which are the three vertical points located at the top right.
- the option appears “Sync now”click on it.
- In a few minutes You will have all the data synchronized.
- Default, it will recognize the applications you had before as well as the contactscalendars and personal data among other things.
These are the steps to follow to migrate a backup from one Gmail account to another
The possibility of transfer all files from one Google account to another and even download them to your computer. This is very useful especially when we just created a new profile and there are things that we are interested in rescuing.
In this particular case, we are going to pass the data from one Gmail email to another:
Log in to your account
The first step that we must take is to go to a web browser and look for the Gmail account to log in with our username and password, then we take the following steps:
- In the upper right corner, tap on the option “Setting”.
- Then check the box “View all settings”.
- A new tab will be displayed, there select “Accounts and importation”.
import mail
Already inside the box to import emails, it tells us that we can do it from any clientincluding yahoo Y but in this case we will do it with another account Gmail.
To do this we doing the next:
- Within “Accounts and Import” look for the optionImport mail and contacts”.
- Next we look for “Import from another address”.
- When I load the selectionwe write the address from which we are going to import the messages and we mark in “Continue”.
- the new tab informs you that you have to log in to the other account, click on “Continue”.
- Once account is verifiedwe accept the respective permissions.
Choose what you want to import
After import permits are granted, “ShuttleCloud Migration” tool has access to saved messages in our account and start doing your job.
To do this, the following steps must be followed:
- We choose what we would like to be imported, between “Contacts”, “Emails” and “New emails for the next 30 days”.
- After selecting, click on “Start import”.
- There will begin the process it may take a long time or a short time depending on the number of files that have to be transported.
- When the action is finished, it will be possible see in the new account the information that was requested to have everything perfectly configured.
Is import tool is very useful since Google does not allow to merge two accounts into onebut using this trick everything is possible.
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