On Tuesday 29 June 2004 01:38, slim wrote: > To do the following? > > I just got one of those fancy-dancy gmail accounts, and while I > aint crazy about the email side of it, the one gig storage gave me > an idea. > > what Id like to do, is make a script that will gather certain dir. > and files for back up, split some tar.gz files at 9.8 meg each and > email them to my gmail account... Slim, Just out of curiosity I wonder what advantage you find in storing such small amounts of back-up data on a machine you don't physically control unless, of course, it's neiter sensitive in nature nor very valuable to you. Regards, Mike Klinke