> Bruce gave a pretty good lightning talk on googlecl a couple meetings back, > with a reference to http://www.dataliberation.org/. Useful to check out, as > that answers some of the backup questions with respect to google.
There's also the google data access APIs which let you write a few simple scripts in Python and download data from google servers. My general philosophy is that I use "web services" if I can automatically get a copy of my data nightly and store it on my own drives somehow. This gives me the best of both worlds: my data is web-accessible when I need it, as well as on devices I may have with me, and I also have complete control over my data and backups should something unlikely happen (the company goes out of business or the data is lost in the cloud). So I've written and downloaded a few simple python scripts that backup my gmail, google docs, google contacts, netflix movie list, google reader opml file, and other such things. These run nightly on a machine in my control and I rest easy at night when it comes to the data that's important to me. -Frank -- ------------------------------------------ Frank Wallingford [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 6 - Creating Browser Extensions for Firefox and Chrome Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment
