BackupGoo

BackupGoo is a security tool you can use to make copies of all your Google files and keep them stored in a safe location. It supports Gmail, Google Drive, contacts, and calendars.

You can get started by setting up a single Gmail account or a Google Apps domain with an administrator's account, as well as by indicating the backup location on the local disk.

Before finalizing account setup, BackupGoo must be permitted access to your Google account when it comes to viewing and managing your email and Drive files, discovering your identity on Google, viewing your email address, and administering your calendars and contacts. This cannot be customized. However, the tool's access can be later revoked from your Google account if you change your mind.

Before running a backup for the first time, you can add multiple Gmail accounts to create backups for all of them at once. During this time, you can view statistics with the currently processed items as well as total emails, calendars, contacts, Drive files and errors, and finished accounts. The task can be canceled anytime. Any items can be excluded from the job when it comes to Gmail, Drive, calendar and contacts.

For each account you can examine details about the most recent Gmail, Drive, calendar and contacts backup, as well as open the backup folder in your default file explorer to check the files. These are saved in their original state, so they aren't compressed. It's possible to make any accounts inactive to temporarily exclude from the backup job, remove any of them from BackupGoo, or fetch all Google accounts from the specified domains.

Backup jobs can be scheduled to regularly run at fixed time intervals by integrating the program into the Windows autostart sequence. You can enable internal domain authentication and disable internal single account authentication, edit these properties, instruct the tool to stop on successful backup jobs, as well as customize the maximum log file size and number of logs to keep.

It's also possible to choose the file types to download from Drive in regard to documents (PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, TXT), drawings (PDF, JPEG, PNG, SVG), spreadsheets (PDF, XLSX) and presentations (PDF, PPTX). Plus, BackupGoo can save metadata and files shared with you, as well as fetch data from Drive's trash folder too. In the case of Gmail, you can also download content from the "All Mails", trash and spam folders.

The utility left a small footprint on system resources in our tests, using low CPU and moderate RAM. It carried out backup jobs rapidly without trigging the OS to hang, crash or prompt error messages.

To wrap it up, BackupGoo facilitates a user-friendly interface and advanced, yet approachable options for regularly backing up all your Google files. It's geared toward all user levels.