{"id":79,"date":"2004-07-27T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-12T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T03:26:17","slug":"old79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Using GMail to backup files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most of us have a Gmail account. Heck, I can&#8217;t even give invitations away anymore. So, what can you do with an extra account? Why, use it as a 1Gb online backup repository!<\/p>\n<p>While surfing around, I came across an ingenious PHP script which does just that. Ilia Alshanetsky, the creator of the script, put it in these words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;a quick utility to make use of at least a small portion of the available space for backup purposes. To accomplish this task I wrote a small PHP script that can be used to backup files to Gmail and then quickly retrieve them back if and when you need them. I trust that Gmail servers are fairly reliable, and this offers an excellent offsite backup that is extremely fast (I can max out my connection on download 300k\/sec) and accessible from anywhere internet is available. Given that you do have 1gig of space quite a few things can be backed up&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a look at it for yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/ilia.ws\/archives\/15_Gmail_as_an_online_backup_system.html\">http:\/\/ilia.ws\/archives\/15_Gmail_as_an_online_backup_system.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, most of us have a Gmail account. Heck, I can&#8217;t even give invitations away anymore. So, what can you do with an extra account? Why, use it as a 1Gb online backup repository! While surfing around, I came across an ingenious PHP script which does just that. Ilia Alshanetsky, the creator of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sA6RZ-old79","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}