On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 02:36, Mike Fedyk wrote: > 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... the gmail account has a 10 meg limit on a > > single message hence the need to split the file... > > Well, since you're going to have to encode it, your files will have to > be split into approx 4.9MB. Base64 may be a bit more efficient though. > > You could split the files, encode, mail, and keep the subjects for > indexes pretty well with maybe a 50 line shell script, but that doesn't > count dealing with http, ssl, and logging into the gmail account. > > I would imagine that google wouldn't want you using gmail for a file > store, so they'd probably add some dynamics into the data submission and > retrieval systems... > > Mike > the file would be an attachment to an email so no login would be required. basically the script would make a backup tar.gz it then just attach it to a e-mail sent to gmail. According to the gmail tos, it actually encourages this type of attachment, I guess to test it out. it just wont accept .exe files thanks for your reply slim
