Free Online Backup howto

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Disclaimer; this is a experimental work in progress. - don't blame anyone if it breaks your system.

Getting a gmail account is easy: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

I want to develop this so that it will back up your home directory to a free gmail account. It is currently not working. It stores data to the gmail account but it is not retrievable.

First get the software gmailfs + duplicity by typing into the command line

   su 
   'yourrootpassword'
   apt-get install gmailfs duplicity

  cd /Desktop

create the script file

   kwrite backup.sh

Paste in the following after changing the gmailuser + gmailpass SomeLongGeneratedHardToCrackKey + and name of your /home/username folder to your actual details.

  #!/bin/sh
  sudo mount -t gmailfs /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py /mnt/ -o                                                         
  username=gmailuser,password=gmailpass,fsname=zOlRRa
  export PASSPHRASE=SomeLongGeneratedHardToCrackKey
  duplicity /home/username file:///mnt/
  unset PASSPHRASE
  umount /mnt/

Click 'save'

make it executable

   chmod 700 backup.sh

then to run it

   ./backup.sh

either run the ./backup.sh command as often as you like or to schedule it to run automatically check here; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto