On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:27:20AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> This is strange. The code should send admin messages without
> caring about the value of $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays}. You should
> get one every night if something needs attention. The cache of
> email sending times to users is only for per-host messages, not
> admin messages.
I went back and looked through my old mail.
I was wrong - the nightly e-mails were in fact sent.
However, the nightly e-mails were wrong/incomplete/misleading.
I guess this falls under a feature request.
Here's one:
The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a
misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts:
- armstrong.internet2.edu (Child exited prematurely)
The following directories are bogus and are not being used by
BackupPC. This typically happens when PCs are removed from the
backup list. If you don't need any old backups from these PCs you
should remove these directories. If there are machines on this
list that should be backed up then there is a problem with the
hosts file:
- /backuppc/data/pc/branford.internet2.edu
- /backuppc/data/pc/cvs0.internet2.edu
- /backuppc/data/pc/nmsx.internet2.edu
- /backuppc/data/pc/wlan-reg.internet2.edu
The "bogus directories" were real, i had chosen not to clean them
out (i'm sure i could have left them configured but set their
expiration to infinite,
the real problem here is that there were no backups attempted of all the
other hosts at all, and the nightly admin email does not reflect these.
it is assumed that the per-host emails are the notification mechanism.
Ideally, the nightly admin email would have an option to list any hosts
that have not had recent backups (by whatever definition is used by the
per-user email), along with the owners listed in the hosts file.
I realize that you originally wrote this software for backing up PCs
that might not be used regularly and this could come up with lots of
noise from people who were out of the office. On the other hand, I
(and I bet lots of others) use it for servers that are up and shoudl be
backed up every night.
this is overlap with the per-host notifications. But I think it is a
useful feature; in my case, i might want to set the owner of a server
to be a developer who gets the nag emails, but i might want the backup
administrator to get all the failure notifications as well, in one
convenient e-mail.
Ideally you might be able to list in the hosts file some configuration
for this. ie, don't notify me for some hosts on saturdays and sundays.
But i'd be happy with a single option to turn such a list on or off.
thanks for considering this.
danno
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