Gmail's Infinity+1 Storage Plan

Fuzzy_Fox · Post by **Fuzzy_Fox** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:36 am

Gmail

Yep, read aallll about it. More storage than you'll ever need

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And I've just found a page for Google's new drink.

Google Gulp

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:38 am

mmm I want me a Google gulp. Anyone got a cap I can have

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:33 am

The first link just took me to my inbox. And Google Gulp looks awesome.

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Streety · Post by **Streety** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:50 am

Try this . . .

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html

The best new option I think is the email forwarding. For me a service that is easy to leave is excellent. It means the people behind it are going to keep on working hard for their customers. If only hotmail supported email forwarding.

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Fuzzy_Fox · Post by **Fuzzy_Fox** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:53 am

Sorry about that, I'm never logged in, so it always takes me to it's log in page.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:25 pm

Pyr-O-Rgasm wrote: The first link just took me to my inbox. And Google Gulp looks awesome.

Yeah, I had that problem too. You just need to log out. It's on the log in page.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:07 pm

hahahha that is great! I like the whole coffee stain thing.

Figured I'd post up a screenshot for preservation purposes. I wanted to do something special for april fools though, but it came too fast.

Reviewing a 1MB video card or making a 486sx vs 486dx article would be fun.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:57 pm

A company called Mail2World (www.mail2world.com) is now offering FREE unlimited email storage.

They just sent out a press release about this: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050418/084907.html

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:05 pm

lol, I should send 2 copies of backups of my server to see how well it handles it. Just need to zip it up (imagine a 200GB zip file lol) and split it in 1MB chunks and send away! "But you said it's unlimited!"b:lol:

Oh and welcome to the forum.

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Streety · Post by **Streety** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:02 pm

Thats a lot of data!

How big is each backup?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:01 pm

Was just a rough estimate of all my data. Lot of it is duplicated multiple times for backups. It's probably more like 150GB since on one drive I'm using 100GB, 37GB on the other, and 39GB on my local disk. Stuff like programs dont count since there's no point in backup that up. I forgot to consider compression, so really it would be more like 100GB zip file. (though I would never zip that much data in a single archive.

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Streety · Post by **Streety** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:40 pm

So how big is each backup?

The problem I have with backups is that although most things are backed up at least twice I don't have a complete backup so if my HDD did fail it would mean piecing everything back together.

I should really have a good clear out and make a complete backup. It would have been a real pain backing everything up to CD's but I've recently got a DVD rewriter so it should be a bit simpler.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:03 pm

Mine are the same way. Only the most important stuff gets backed up.

For example my intranet drive on the server, which I use for php development is backed up to a non writable directory very often. (in case I screw up something while working on a script, or accidentally delete, etc) then it's backed up to my local hard drive once a week, about. This is about 600MB of data. The bigest space takers are sql databases, they're about a Gig each and I like to rotate then at least 10 steps, then have 5 that go up to 5 weeks old.

But I try as much as possible to have stuff backed up on different physical drives so if one was to fail I would at least keep the most important.

Oh and I also backup stuff to CD if it's something I'll use later on, for example, setup files for programs. You never know when the author will decide to just pull it off, or start charging for it.

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