OT What would be the best script type

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:33, slim wrote:
> 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.

Well, you can either write a bash shell or perl script to do that. It's
faily simple depending on your needs (and what's your profienciency in
writing it. I'm more comfy with bash). To get them to be mailed to your
gmail account, you can get logwatch/cront do just that. 

And your question was...?/

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