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JoshuaFH

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Email Backups
« on: August 12, 2009, 10:31:31 pm »
So, instead of backing things up on a disc or flashdrive like a sane person, I like to place them as an attachment on an email, and send it to myself, so it's always stored on the email company's server in my Inbox.

My account is of the hotmail variety, but the sad thing is that they only allow attachments of 10 MB or less for each email for a free hotmail account, and I have a particulary hefty number of pictures of my family and friends I'd like to save in this manner which far exceeds this limit, so is there any other email provider that'll allow me to do this?

I haven't checked out Gmail yet, and I'll do so, but I'd also like to hear what you guys have to say.
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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 10:58:42 pm »
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JoshuaFH

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2009, 11:08:03 pm »
That looked really promising, but the file uploads are only 25 megabytes at a time. It would take forever to cut up all my pictures into the hundreds of different folders and to upload them individually to Box.
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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2009, 05:21:12 am »
Gmail does supposedly have an unlimited attachment size.
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JoshuaFH

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2009, 05:23:32 am »
Also a 25 megabyte limit. I can't even fit my story collection in that!
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Peewee

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2009, 07:54:09 am »
drop.io will store 100MB per 'drop' for one month for free. Any more per 'drop' or longer period of time and you have to pay.

Also, winrar has the nice feature of being able to split up an archive into fixed-size chunks.
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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2009, 12:49:51 pm »
For personal use I find dropbox very comfortable. If you want bigger storage I would recommend running encrypted NAS at home (if you have good internet connection).
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JoshuaFH

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 03:45:11 am »
Quote from: Peewee on August 13, 2009, 07:54:09 am
drop.io will store 100MB per 'drop' for one month for free. Any more per 'drop' or longer period of time and you have to pay.

Also, winrar has the nice feature of being able to split up an archive into fixed-size chunks.

That seems good, so long as I can get them out after a month.

How do you make winrar split things into chunks?
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JoshuaFH

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2009, 01:37:49 pm »
I looked at the winRAR instruction manual:

http://acritum.com/winrar/manual/index.html

and can't find anything like telling it to split files into certain sizes. Can anyone point this out for me?
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JoshuaFH

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2009, 08:24:06 am »
Man, how weird. I got fed up with trying to figure out how to do the winRAR thing, so I've just been doing it manually. Emailing a 20 megabyte archive of photos to myself takes up 60 megabytes of the space Gmail gives me. Why is that?
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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2009, 10:11:02 am »
Compress the files superly.  Try to get the files down to the limit!
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Peewee

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Re: Email Backups
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2009, 09:57:48 am »
To split an archive into a size:

1. Run winrar.exe from your installation directory.
2. Find the files you want to compress/archive.
3. Select them in the winrar window, then click the 'add' button at the top left corner.
4. Open up calculator (or pen/pencil or pocket calculator or whatever) and figure out how many bytes you need to split the file(s) into.
1 GB = 1024 MB
1 MB = 1024 KB
1 KB = 1024 B
5. Type that number into the "split to volumes, bytes" textbox at the bottom left corner of the winrar window.
6. Choose whatever other options you want, then make the archive.
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