#87 Avoiding Disaster with a Remote Archive
Whether or not you have a good backup strategy, with tape rotation and so forth, it's still a nice insurance policy to identify a half-dozen critical files and have them sent to a separate off-site archive system. Even if it's just that one key file that contains customer addresses, invoices, or even email from your sweetheart, having an occasional off-site archive can save your life when you least expect it.
This sounds more complex than it really is, because as you'll see in this script, the archive is just a file emailed to a remote mailbox and could even be pointed to a Yahoo! or Hotmail mailbox. The list of files is kept in a separate data file, with shell wildcards allowed therein. Filenames ...
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