Offsite backups for the rest of us?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 11 15:06:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:42:29AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> Ilya Palagin wrote:
> 
> > Free webmail with 1Gb (and more) storage space.  Your data is mostly
> > static, so
> > occupy available space and let google back it up for you :-)
> 
> now 2gig+ !
> can someone suggest a script-based, gmail inclined, middle of the night,
> cron-ified backup strategy ?
> There should be some provision for file encryption, and perhaps a backup
> file rotation/deletion scheme. Is there a published API ?

Maybe using gmailfs?

If the backup can be done in small files rather than large big files, it
may even be fairly efficient. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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