Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[David J Patrick]

Ilya Palagin wrote:

> Quoting David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>:
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>> Ilya Palagin wrote: 
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> Uploading files using web interface may not be reliable.  I would make
> a script
> which packs my stuff into 10Mb chunks (or whatever attachment limit
> is) and
> sends it by smtp (of course, it must not be a huge single tar). 
> Subject would contain a chunk ID, so that when I need to restore
> something, I would download

[snip]

> It's also possible that this project has been done by someone already,
> sourceforge.net may provide with details :-)

There are a number of hits when searching sourceforge for "gmail",
perhaps the most promising (for scripted backups) is
http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/ a python approach.
djp

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