I haven't tested this one yet, so no promises, but it looks interesting.
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If you've got a Gmail account, you've got handy access to 1gb of email, and now most accounts also have POP access enabled. Using those two facts, forum reader minton created a script that backs up selected files from the Finder to a Gmail account.
I haven't tested this one yet, so no promises, but it looks interesting.
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Use a Gmail account for basic file backups
Since 1985, I've been suggesting email backups as a joke!
Back then, in the pre-domain-name world, email addresses were specified as a series of machine (node) names; most systems still used UUCP to transfer files (and email) via dialup connections. If any component of the path was wrong, the email would bounce back from that point. So the idea was to package up a bunch of files, email them with a deliberately wrong node in a long path, then wait for the bounce. Send it out again, and your backups simply cycle around. The History My email was ...ihnp3!sun!apple!rick in those days. To send email to anyone, you had to specify the entire pathname from your site to the recipient. Typically, you could just say ... as the beginning of your email path if the first node was a well-known one on the net. ihnp3 (and, later, ihnp4) were the very busy nodes at an AT&T facility in the midwest (i.e. "Indian Hill Network Processor 3"). Most everyone knew a path to get to that node. There were a dozen or so well-known nodes, and this made it easier to print your email address on a business card. About that time, the pathalias program appeared. Using a database of all network nodes, pathalias could construct an efficient path between any two nodes. Pathalias had to solve the old "traveling salesman problem." ---
Much better way
I just use my Mac OSX hints posting for my data backup.
Mail Backup
Here is what I do...
Mail Backup
Can you further explain in detail how you did this?
4MB Limit?
I have seen a few utilities in the past that purport Gmail backups. There is alway someone that posts and says that there is a 4MB limit on files sent to Gmail... meaning that you can back up a gig of stuff, but it all has to be separated into 4MB chunks.
4MB Limit?
I just sent a 9mb file through without any problems.
Use a Gmail account for basic file backups
Wow, almost a day old and nobody's mentioned GMailFS yet?!
Use a Gmail account for basic file backups
Exactly! I read the title and figured that it was a rehash of GMailFS and didn't even bother to read. This product takes the concept of GMail backups waaay beyond this hint.
Use a Gmail account for basic file backups
Wow, great hint. I love it! So here's a version of the same script but modified to allow for dropping of files. It's on the same hint as the first (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=31163). Simply save the script as an application. Drop files or folders on to it and it will send them off. Remember to change the username property to your gmail username.
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Use a Gmail account for basic file backups
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