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Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.

Terminal - Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.
split -b4m file.tgz file.tgz. ; for i in file.tgz.*; do SUBJ="Backup Archive"; MSG="Archive File Attached"; echo $MSG | mutt -a $i -s $SUBJ YourEmail@(E)mail.com
2010-03-20 16:49:19
User: tboulay
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Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.

This is just a little snippit to split a large file into smaller chunks (4mb in this example) and then send the chunks off to (e)mail for archival using mutt.

I usually encrypt the file before splitting it using openssl:

openssl des3 -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz -out file.tgz.des3

To restore, simply save attachments and rejoin them using:

cat file.tgz.* > output_name.tgz

and if encrypted, decrypt using:

openssl des3 -d -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz.des3 -out file.tgz

edit: (changed "g" to "e" for political correctness)

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Awesome! What a great command for freeloaders who just want to take advantage of corporate generosity. Make sure when Google starts stopping people from doing this kind of thing that you complain loudly on your blog. Dirty corporations.

Comment by deltaray 98 weeks and 6 days ago

@ deltaray, not that it matters, but where I work, and use this backup method, we pay google to host our email for 3 domains. It's far from free and definitely not 'corporate generosity'.

Comment by tboulay 98 weeks and 6 days ago

So you pay google a lot of money to host your e-mail but you resort to backup methods like this to save money? :-(

Comment by deltaray 91 weeks and 3 days ago

@deltaray .. A tape library, netbackup, offsite secure storage that's DR compliant + google hosting, .. or using the offsite, DR compliant, cloud space that we already pay for....

Comment by tboulay 91 weeks and 3 days ago

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