Ever since Geoff wrote the small script to backup a WordPress installation automatically, I have wanted to make his script email me with the backups once they are done. So I modified the original script to email a given address with the backup files (the backup files are deleted from the server once the email is sent) I ran into some problems while running the script on my own server because of the sheer size of the backups. I rewrote it to FTP the backups to another server to prevent killing my mail server. However, smaller installations (anything less than 500 megs) would benefit from the email backup and I decided to release the code. You can download the script from here, copy it to a location on your drive that would allow execution, give it execute permissions (chmod 755 backupwp.sh) and then write a small cron entry that runs […]