Automatically backup important files to e-mail

Lifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great tutorial for automatically e-mailing yourself file backups. While e-mail isn't a great place to store an entire system backup, my 2.7 GB of Gmail space is enough to store my My Documents folder 50 times over, and being able to securely access important files from anywhere is priceless. As with many of Lifehacker's tutorials, the process takes some fiddling, but uses free software and gets the job done.

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