A french blogger (@Nicolargo) wrote a how-to to do an automatic and
incremental backup of your Gmail account. You can find it there :
http://blog.nicolargo.com/2012/08/sauvegarde-incrementale-et-automatise-de-votre-compte-gmail.html
.
In the case of you don't understand french, I could translate it for you ;-)

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Le 22/10/2012 11:05, Robin Wood a écrit :
> I've been using gmail/google apps for years and according to their
> stats I've got over 7G stored in my mailbox. Thinking about all the
> hacks that have happened where mail spools have been dumped I reckon
> it would be a good idea to remove a lot of that data, maybe everything
> beyond 6 months old, but I don't want to delete it, just in case. So I
> was thinking of setting up some kind of offline backup which I could
> store encrypted and only open if I ever need to dig back through.
> 
> I know this can be done manually with IMAP or POP3, pulling down the
> mails and then deleting them from the server and possibly using GPG to
> add them to the storage location. But I don't like doing things
> manually where they can be scripted so I was wondering if anything
> like this already existed before I start putting something together
> myself. Anyone know of anything?
> 
> Robin
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