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marycrawford ([personal profile] marycrawford) wrote2005-03-04 07:12 pm

Gmail backup

I now have 50 Gmail invites for every Gmail account. I think Google wants to take over the world. (I think everyone and his neighbour has one already, but comment below if you want one.)

One of the ways I use Gmail is for story backup - sure, backing up on a different harddisk is useful, but backing up to an email server in another country is more useful still, especially with 1Gb of space per email account. It occurs to me that with this ridiculous number of invites, I could set up a separate address for every longer story/novel/whatever and then email my updates to that address every day.

(This makes it sound as though I am working on ten novels at once. This is not in fact the case. But I live in hope.)

[identity profile] kriscat.livejournal.com 2005-03-04 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
What a great idea! And that way, you can access your stories where ever you are in the world. I think I'm going to do my own version of your idea and create an account where I store stories from yahoo groups and links to stories I like. As you said there's 1 Gb of space per account, so why not make the most of it!

[identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com 2005-03-05 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That's another good idea - use it as a story archive for fic you don't want to lose. I scent possibilities. ;-)

[identity profile] merryish.livejournal.com 2005-03-04 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!

I have 50 or so, too.

[identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com 2005-03-05 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already been assimilated. *g*
What I need now is a tool to check all my Gmail accounts for new mail at once. Hmmm.