Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Ilya Palagin wrote:
> 
> > 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 chunks ABD12343 and ABD12344 from my Inbox 
> > (index is to be stored in a database with an ASCII listing in the same 
> > inbox for backup).
> 
> Watch out - data sent via email is 33% larger than the same data sent via 
> scp (for example).  That's MIME for ya :)

I meant binary data here.  This was probably obvious but I wanted to spell 
it out anyway :)

Rob 

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