Email Backup Pro: Simple email backup and restore
Maza Digital has re-released its Email Backup app as a shareware app called Email Backup Pro.
It offers a simple schedule for the complete backup of messages and settings in Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora and MS Entourage X and 2004. The shareware version adds a restore option and comes with an optional add-on to manage backups on external harddrives.
The interface clearly presents options for the location and timing of the backups and the number of backup to save:
If you want to save your backups to an external drive that is not always connected, an additional freeware app Email Backup On Mount 
is provided.
It watches for the mounting on the remote drive and prompts you to do a backup when it is connected. It also offers menubar access to Email Backup Pro’s main features.
The backups are compressed as zip files with the date of the backup and the extension .ebp, which helps with subsequent identification and saves space.
Restoring the backup is as easy as selecting “Restore” from the app’s Tools menu.
Email Backup Pro costs USD 9.95 and a demo version (with scheduling disabled) is available from the developer’s web site .
Documentation is not included in the download, but is available separately.
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Tags: Apple Mail, backup, email, entourage, Eudora, mail.app, restore, thunderbird
November 8th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
[...] Email Backup Pro is an easy to use backup utility for all the major Mac email clients: Apple Mail, Entourage x.V and 2004, Thunderbird, Eudora. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Hi
I just read your review of Mail Backup Pro. It seems quite a good program, but right now I am using Backup from Apple. I was wondering what the difference is and why I might switch to Mail Backup Pro? Can you help me?
thanks,
Tom
ps: great blo, I am one of your daily readers.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
@Tom–If you use Mail.app and Backup and are happy, I don’t see any compelling reason to change.
And, congratulations! You are among the 5% of users who use automated backups. (That was the figure mentioned in the Time Machine keynote earlier in the year, I think).
Unfortunately there are people out there who persist in using other mail clients. Some of them don’t have .Mac accounts. This is a good option (among many) for them.