Half Backup and Half Don't

I setup 9 different websites through my host.

I use iThemes Security on all of them. They are all configured the same. Half of them send the backup of their database to the email address, and half of them don’t. My main site has never emailed a backup to me. A few of my subdomains send backups to my email address, and a few of them don’t.

I have them ALL set to “Save Locally and Email”.

When I “Create Database Backup” and force the issue, it says that it has successfully created a Database backup and emailed it to me, but with a few of the websites, nothing ever arrives in the email.

I have never seen a backup from my Foliogine Pro theme, from my Virtue Premium Theme, from my Tempera Theme, from my Make Theme, and from my Vantage Premium Theme.

I have received in email the scheduled backups for the Zerif Pro Theme, Customizr Pro Theme, BookRev Premium Theme, and Metro CreativeX Theme.

There is no rhyme nor reason why some of them should work correctly and some of them don’t work correctly. They are all set the same, using the same API key and email address.

I did try a different email address with a couple of the ones that weren’t working, and forced it to create the database. It said it emailed me the database, but nothing ever showed up.

Any ideas? It’s not like they just disappeared into the spam folder, because I looked, and they ain’t there.

It has been this way for months, with iThemes Security seeming to be half-in and half-out.

I never bothered posting, because Duplicator seems to be the best way to make a backup, and ServerPress likes Duplicator best for transferring live to local and back to live again. But, I figured it was time to speak up.

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