Backing up Google Mail

In the last month I've been trialling a way of backing up my Google Mail account.  The solution is call GmVault, and it was recommended by LifeHacker

It's cross-platform, and it stores your Google Mail as individual emails, so should GMail go down for any length of time you can still search/browse your emails.

Here is the command I use to do the backup:

bin/gmvault sync ian@email.com -d /Volumes/Sys_Slow/NoBackup/GmailBackup/ -t quick

Hey, remember to correct the email address.  Note that the -d parameter specifies where to do the dump, and the -t quick specifies to only do the last two months (clearly you don't use this parameter the first time you run it).