The idea is that to save space on the server I would just email the backup to my Gmail address and then delete the backup from the server. Then I could keep as many backups in my Gmail account as I liked, which would let me go back a day, a week or a month to old backups.
I'm might try something like PHPMailer instead of the built-in mail() function. Hopefully it doesn't hang on large messages like mail() seems to. On Jan 16, 8:32 am, Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > how about emailing a link to where the file is allowing it to be > downloaded, base64 encoded files are 33% larger than the original. > Some mail servers don't like large atachments. > > On Jan 14, 3:40 pm, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm writing a little script that will backup MySQL databases and email > > the backups to me. > > > I'm using mail() and the backups are attached to the message in > > base64. > > > Everything is working fine except if the backup is larger than about > > 7MB, in which case the call to mail() seems to hang. No error > > messages are generated and the script doesn't even seem to time out > > (I've left it running for over half an hour!) Smaller backups are > > being sent ok. > > > Is this a known problem with mail()? > > > I'm using PHP 4.4.7 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
