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Near misses are great for reminding us to check our back ups :)

I'd advise against using email for sending the actual backups as there's quite a few security risks and a lot of technical things that could catch you out over time (e.g. hitting size limits as your database grows).

As an alternative you could use a secure upload to a remote location for transferring the backup file and then email yourself on any failures.