On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 08:33, Mike Klinke wrote: > 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 Mike, I dont physically control the servers as they are many, many miles from me. :) I just was wanting to experiment writing scripts. I back up all my data for real to a different partition on each server and keep masters here at home.
