On 09/23/2010 11:31 PM, Frank Wallingford wrote:
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.
Sounds like useful scripts, any chance in sharing them?
-Sean
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