The most compelling reason is that it’s easy. Just follow these steps:

1. Log into your Google calendar
2. Click on the Manage Calendars link (On the left side)
3. Click on the calendar you want to backup
4. Scroll down to the section that says Private Address
5. There will be a link that says “ical”, There be your data!

At this point you have a few options:

1. Right click the ical link, click save link as and save that ical data.
2. Use that url in a custom backup program you write.
3. Import the ical data into Outlook or some other calendar software.

What are the other reasons to backup your Google calendar?

1. Google could turn evil someday (and delete everyones’ data?)
2. Google coud lose or delete data by accident
3. You could lose your internet connection for an extended period of time
4. You may want to move to a different calendar software in the future and am not able to export from Google calendar at that time(see reason 1)

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How to automatically add birthdays to Google Calendar

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) in Other, Web Services