I have been using your backup plugin for a long time, years, I'm sure. Last week I switched from having my database backed up weekly to being backed up daily. I kept the same email address, but for some reason the email isn't working. I found the backups in the backup directory, one per day, created at the precisely same time of day. I get other mail to this address, and I checked the spam folder. The size of the first daily backup file is 3,448,186 as listed by Filezilla. The last successfully emailed backup was 3308KB, according to the email. (I have been blogging for over 7 years, have just under 1000 posts and 7,696 approved comments-no spam.) I checked the knowledge base of my webhost to see if my host had a restriction on email attachment size, and couldn't find one. Is there anything else I should check?
My webhost says the email attachment can be up to 10MB. Gmail says it can handle more than that. So I don't think the size of the attachment is preventing it from being mailed.
No, it does not. I tried it with my domain name email and with gmail, in case it was a particular mail server. The backup is on the server and I can manually download it, but it doesn't get emailed. It worked fine up until I switched from weekly to monthly.
Clearly, the plugin is creating the backups, but for some reason, it is unable to mail them. Thinking that perhaps my WordPress install had become corrupted, I deleted and reinstalled 2.9.2. It still creates the backups and still fails to email them.
I have been using your backup plugin for a long time, years, I'm sure. Last week I switched from having my database backed up weekly to being backed up daily. I kept the same email address, but for some reason the email isn't working. I found the backups in the backup directory, one per day, created at the precisely same time of day. I get other mail to this address, and I checked the spam folder. The size of the first daily backup file is 3,448,186 as listed by Filezilla. The last successfully emailed backup was 3308KB, according to the email. (I have been blogging for over 7 years, have just under 1000 posts and 7,696 approved comments-no spam.) I checked the knowledge base of my webhost to see if my host had a restriction on email attachment size, and couldn't find one. Is there anything else I should check?
My webhost says the email attachment can be up to 10MB. Gmail says it can handle more than that. So I don't think the size of the attachment is preventing it from being mailed.
Does the email work if you manually backup (rather than just schedule it to happen)?
No, it does not. I tried it with my domain name email and with gmail, in case it was a particular mail server. The backup is on the server and I can manually download it, but it doesn't get emailed. It worked fine up until I switched from weekly to monthly.
I switched it back to weekly backups, and now it doesn't email those, either.
Clearly, the plugin is creating the backups, but for some reason, it is unable to mail them. Thinking that perhaps my WordPress install had become corrupted, I deleted and reinstalled 2.9.2. It still creates the backups and still fails to email them.
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