We'll, they do take care of your data, but most of them being free services don't generally come with an SLA where you can go back and ask for any kind of compensation in case of any data loss.

However, there are many ways your data can vanish or get modified. For instance, your account may get hacked, a common possibility, or for that matter, the website may go down for some time (could be minutes, days or even weeks) thus barring you from accessing any data.

So, taking a backup of your online data is very important as the data once lost is not so easy to recover.

Another solution provider called Idrive include features such as automatic backup, true archiving, versioning, mapped drive backup, etc. Facebook profile backup tool called SocialSafe allows to download Facebook friends, photo albums, etc. Tweetake is a service that lets you take the backup of your Twitter account.

Sign in to the site mentioned above. We have registered for 15-day trial period. You can also upgrade to free, premium or the max plans.

After signing up for the account simply activate it from your online account.

Select either 'Services in Beta' or the 'Service Settings'. Click on 'Manage' and it will prompt you to enter your login credentials. Backupify will begin with scheduled backup service.

You can also change the backup settings depending upon whether you want to perform the backup daily, weekly, etc.

Select your account & choose the desired service. Select the file you want to take backup of from the list. The file format is .eml and you also can save it and do modifications to it.

This is the preview of the file saved in the .eml format in the previous step. By default it gets saved in C:\Documents and Settings folder.

The History tab has the option wherein you can select a particular service. Backupify takes 24- 48 hours to take the backup depending upon the data in your account.

Change your personal information like email id and password. As the trial period gets over, you can upgrade to other plans.

Backupify is a different solution that helps you backup your online email accounts like Gmail, Facebook, etc. With just a few simple steps and in a few minutes Backupify backs up all your online data. You just need to login with your credentials for the sites you want to backup and rest will be done automatically. You can avail 15-day free trial on all accounts while Twitter backup is always free.

Here we guide you how to back up your Gmail data.

Madhur Chawla