On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:41 AM, Matthew Margolis wrote: > Matthew Margolis wrote: > > >> Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote: >> >> >>> Keep in mind that Gmail only allows attachments up to 10Mb in >>> size. So you will have to split it into 10Mb chunks and send >>> multiple emails. >>> HTH >>> -Ezra Zygmuntowicz >>> WebMaster >>> Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper >>> ezra / yakima-herald.com >>> 509-577-7732 >>> >>> >>> On Aug 7, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Matthew Margolis wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I would like to send email from a server running FreeBSD >>>> (TextDrive) to my gmail account to make a weekly backup of my >>>> customer's website. The attachment that I need to be able to >>>> send will be a tgz and will be around 15 MBs. What are my >>>> options for constructing and sending this mail via ruby? >>>> Right now I am using PHPmailer for this job and it just isn't >>>> cutting it now that the attachment is over 10 MBs. I checked >>>> out RAA and didn't find anything that seemed to handle >>>> attachments well. Simplemail looked to be the most promising >>>> but it doesn't seem to play nice on my server, it just sat >>>> there eating up lots of resources. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Matthew Margolis >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Was this implemented in the last month or two? I have 11MB >> attachments that I have sent through gmail. >> >> Thank you, >> Matthew Margolis >> >> > Nevermind I found the blurb on gmail's site. I guess I am going to > need to figure out a new backup system. > > -Matthew Margolis > Mathew- You can still do this with gmail. You just need to split the tar.gz file into 10MB chunks. If you are on linux or OSX have a look at $ man split. You can make the tar.gz backup of the whole htdocs folder and then run it through split which can split it up into 10Mb chunks then loop through and attach one chunk to each email until the whole backup is complete. Then when you need to restore a backup you just append the chunks together and untar/gzip just like normal. Let me know how you come along on this script as I could use something similar. Actually why don't you contact me off list and we can work together to make this script? I'm sure some poeple would find it useful and we can post it back to the list here once it is finished. HTH- -Ezra Zygmuntowicz Yakima Herald-Republic WebMaster 509-577-7732 ezra / yakima-herald.com