If you’ve ever wanted a simpler solution to backing up your files online - this article is for you. I currently use Gmail as a quick and dirty online backup solution where what I typically what I do is : Login to Gmail, attach the file, and then I email it to myself.

While quick, this is still a 3 step process… So here’s how to get it down to one move!

‘Backup to Email’ (BTE) is a great piece of freeware which simplifies everything. Just right click any file or folder, and select ‘Backup to Email’. That’s it!

One thing I love about BTE is that it’s incredibly intuitive. Here are some examples:

• If you choose to upload a folder, the folder will be automatically zipped and backed up.

• No limit on file / folder size. Files/folders larger than 10MB will automatically be split to slices of 10MB, so your email can cope. When you download the split files, you can easily join them up again with a feature that comes with BTE.

• Easy management of multiple email accounts to backup to

• If the connection is disconnected at the middle of a file transfer, it initiates an auto-retry every 2 minutes

Looks like my quick and dirty backup solution just got quicker, but cleaner!

Bonus tip #1:
Configure a Yahoo email account as your default backup account. While Gmail currently offers more than 4.7Gigs of storage space, Yahoo Mail now offers unlimited space.

Bonus tip #2:
Setup email filters to automatically steer all your backups into a folder so it does not clog up your inbox. Here are the instructions on how to do it for Yahoo Mail and Gmail.