{"id":2369,"date":"2007-06-13T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/how-to-fix-missing-wordpress-database-backup-emails\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:41:20","slug":"how-to-fix-missing-wordpress-database-backup-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/how-to-fix-missing-wordpress-database-backup-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Missing WordPress Database Backup Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use the amazing <strong>WordPress Database Backup<\/strong> wordpress plugin to create backup of my WordPress database. The latest version, powered by WordPress 2.2, can email you a <strong>daily backup of your MySQL database<\/strong> using WordPress cron system. I have configured WordPress Database Backup wordpress plugin to email the database files weekly, but for the last 2 weeks, I received no backup email! I tried to create an on-demand backup (which went well), but still got no email&#8230; and it was not a plugin bug at all!<\/p>\n<p>I checked out various forums where it was suggested that a <strong>new version of the plugin<\/strong> fiuxed the issue. I was already using the latest version of 2.1.2. I reupdated my plugin, but still no emails were being sent.<\/p>\n<p>Then I figured out what the problem was. It was not a plugin bug at all. Maybe my database file was  too large and my <strong>email address did not allow huge attachments<\/strong>. I checked that Gmail allows you to send and receive messages a <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=8770&amp;topic=1517\" rel=\"noopener\">maximum of 20 MB<\/a> in size (including attachments). Then I tried sending the backup to my Yahoo mail account, but still no luck (The free  Yahoo! Mail account has even lower limits of <a href=\"http:\/\/mailplus.mail.yahoo.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">10MB per message<\/a> only! <span class=\"bb-url\">Mail Plus<\/span> users limits upto 20MB)<\/p>\n<p>I remembered my experience while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/wordpress-21-upgrade-tips-and-tricks\/\">upgrading to WordPress 2.1<\/a>, I had got a huge database file of 41MB! I checked my previous database files over the weeks, they vary from 2-7 MB. So maybe the database file was so huge that it crossed the <strong>email maximum size limits<\/strong> and never reached me.<\/p>\n<p>I checked that there were over <strong>23000 spam comments<\/strong> blocked by Akismet waiting clearance. So indeed the database table size would be huge. Then I used my trick of deleting Akismet spam to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/reduce-database-backup-size-delete-akismet-blocked-spam\/\">reduce database file size<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>And did it work?<\/em> Of course it did. The database was backed up much faster, was error free and I have a 2.7MB .sql.qz file sitting in my inbox right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the amazing WordPress Database Backup wordpress plugin to create backup of my WordPress database. The latest version, powered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}