Comments on: Backup2Mail v0.15

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:40 +0000

I use this as a cron job to backup and mail my database to a misc gmail account daily - works like a dream - the db is 7mb and gzips in my email are 1.5mb

By: Dr. Ritalin

Dr. Ritalin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:27:54 +0000

Thanks a million. It is one of the best scripts I’ve ever used.

By: nikola

nikola — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:48:46 +0000

sorry for writing here but what is this intro picture all about … have you become a father again or what?

By: anemos

anemos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:06:18 +0000

Thanks, looks pretty useful, especially on webhosts that don’t offer proper way’s to backup your database!

Some recommendations/ideas for the future though you might want to keep in mind, if you care or continue development:

- Toggle between terminal / browser output, html output in terminal is really ugly.
- Instead of mail() function use phpmailer or similar? (Yeah, of course, dependencies suck, but it would offer more options)
- Handle big files, php memory, especially on webhosts usually aren’t capable of handling a 16mb gzipped dump of an database in memory ;).

Cheers.