OT What would be the best script type

[slim]

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.