Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

#21859 Send backup by email

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Latest post by dlb on Tuesday, 13 January 2015 12:38 CST

Tuesday, 13 January 2015 11:04 CST

footsteps

Description of my issue:

Hi

Please can you tell me what menu(s) I must use to access the 'Send by mail' setting so that I can set up a email (with attahcment) to be sent after a scheduled backups has completed

Many thanks

Steve

Tuesday, 13 January 2015 11:09 CST

dlb

The option is in the post processing engine. Use the Configure button to set up the email address and subject.

Note that this only works for a really small backup. The backup archive quickly becomes too large for the email attachment to handle.

Dale L. Brackin
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015 11:15 CST

footsteps

Thanks Dale,

As you say this might not be the best solution due to file sizes, but is there a way to send an email with a link to the file on my server rather than an attachment?

Alternatively I might lok in to the drop box upload option.

Tuesday, 13 January 2015 12:38 CST

dlb

I can't think of any way to send just a link to the backup archive. The cloud storage options are probably the best solution. If you need to send the backup archive to another person, you can upload it to a shared folder on the cloud storage. Dropbox and S3 would both support that, those are the two that I'm most familiar with.

Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist

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