Offsite backups for the rest of us?

David Thornton david-FkEgs2FKm2NvBvnq28/GKQ at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 12 02:40:08 UTC 2005


The moving target that is gmail's api is as much a threat to a 
functional backup as any encryption scheme.

david

Jason Shein wrote:

>On April 11, 2005 03:08 pm, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:42:29AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>>>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 ?
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>>>Maybe using gmailfs?
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>>I'll bite; what's gmailfs ?
>>djp
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>http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
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>-snip-
>Saturday January 29th 2005
>The author of libgmail has updated the library to deal with recent changes in 
>Gmail. This should resolve the problems recently experienced by Gmail 
>Filesystem users. The most recent version of libgmail from CVS is required 
>for Gmail Filesystem to operate correctly.
>-snip-
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>Dont know if it is still functional
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