I backed up my site before making some changes and had the backup sent to me via email. What I got was base-64-encoded. I decoded it but instead of viable SQL, I got wingdings and nonsense.
What version of WordPress and the plugin are you using?
The plugin sends the database *tar.gz file base-64 encoded, because that's a good way to handle binary attachments in emails (probably something confused your email client so that it doesn't recognize the boundaries of the attachment).
If you have decoded the base-64 text, then you would need to gunzip it in order to view the plain sql text.
I backed up my site before making some changes and had the backup sent to me via email. What I got was base-64-encoded. I decoded it but instead of viable SQL, I got wingdings and nonsense.
What's going on here?
What version of WordPress and the plugin are you using?
The plugin sends the database *tar.gz file base-64 encoded, because that's a good way to handle binary attachments in emails (probably something confused your email client so that it doesn't recognize the boundaries of the attachment).
If you have decoded the base-64 text, then you would need to gunzip it in order to view the plain sql text.
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