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Backup to Email
by Jason Clarke Nov 6th 2006 at 1:00PM
Sometimes you have files that are very important to you, and you need to make sure that you retain access to them, in the event of a catastrophe. While most people know and understand that they need to have a good backup process in place that they can trust, most people also don't have one. The reason most people don't have one is that it's a pain to do. Here's an easy way to start backing up the important files in your life. Create a Gmail account for the purpose of storing your backed up files, then download and install Backup to Email.
Backup to Email is a little utility that adds a context menu option on your system called, appropriately, "Backup to Email". Choosing that menu option when right-clicking on a file will automatically zip up the file into 10 MB chunks (if the file is larger than 10 MB in the first place), and email it to a pre-determined email address. This is where that Gmail account you created comes in.
It doesn't get much simpler than that. Backup to Email also has some rudimentary functionality to deal with dropped connections; if a connection is dropped during a file transfer, it will re-attempt the transfer 100 times at two minute intervals.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Scott said 1:32PM on 11-06-2006
Why "hack" a way to get it into an email account when you could use Xdrive(or ither services), also free, to do the same thing ? No need to break it up into 10mb chuncks and store it in emiail. I am just always curious why people use Gmail as a file server when others exist.
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Todd said 3:33PM on 11-06-2006
Because GMail doesn't delete your files after x amount of time, that's why.
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Ganesh said 5:41PM on 11-06-2006
And moreover XDrive sucks. I tried in several different machines but the xdrive desktop software never worked for me
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Checketts said 9:34PM on 11-06-2006
Does it have a 'backup folder to email' option? zThat would be fantastic.
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Tomer said 10:51AM on 11-18-2006
Yes, if you right click a folder then it zips it and sends it to your mail account.
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