Filed under: Utilities, E-mail, Web services
Backup2Mail: automatically back up your site's database to email
A lot of free email accounts - I'm thinking of Gmail, here, specifically - offer enough storage space to keep from filling up too quickly with backups. If you're a privacy-conscious person, you could have Backup2Mail back up to an account on your own server. If you were really ambitious, you could probably set up a simple script or filter for the email account to have it clear out the oldest backups to make room for me.
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BJ said 5:56PM on 7-08-2009
It's not quite as simple as just being able to run PHP scripts. Most shared hosts will have disabled system commands from being made by scripts, this won't work with most shared hosts as a result.
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Jeffrey said 11:56AM on 7-08-2009
Back up to email? Seriously?
If a system administrator who worked for me ever did this, I would punch them in the eyeball.
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blaszta said 12:30PM on 7-08-2009
Wordpress has that feature builtin, although I never use it :-)
dberman said 8:42AM on 7-09-2009
Email has 0 security on it; it's transmitted in clear text. If you want to securely send someone a large file like a backup, you should use sendtoperson.com to
send big files.
You can send up to 1 GB per month free.
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