Mark Sopuch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to the following from the BackupPC docs I cannot satisfy my
> requirement to have a generic authorised account (backuppc I called
> mine) do backups for all users on a certain host AND have all the
> moreUsers of that host notified with mails about (non)backup status.
>
> At present, the backuppc account doesn't have a mail address so root
> gets the $user$domain mail. Generally speaking I have the luxury of
> leaving it to users to ensure their backups are up to date in BackupPC
> but if they don't get the mails that might be less helpful to all
> involved.
>
> Is there a way to get such mail capability in BackupPC at the moment?
> If not, is my request reasonable enough to justify some develeopment
> toward such a scenario? Shared workstations are not uncommon around
> here especially with 24 hours being 3 shifts of different
> workers(usernames) sometimes.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Mark
>
> = = = = = = = = = =
>
> More users
>
> Additional user names, separate by commas and with no white space,
> can be specified. These users will also have full permission in the
> CGI interface to stop/start/browse/restore backups for this host.
> These users will not be sent email about this host.
>
>
> $Conf{EMailNoBackupRecentMesg} = <<'EOF';
> To: $user$domain
> cc:
> Subject: $subj
>
> Dear $userName,
>
> This is a site-specific email message.
> EOF
>
>
>
>
Thank you Les and Curt for the suggestions.
On that, I'd say that in trying to simplify things for myself I may
indeed be complicating them in the way that my wanting to use one
account (and global config for $user mailto: substitutions) across all
PCs does not allow for the differentiation I need for grouping users
(for notifications) of a machine at the moment. I figure that is what
moreUsers can help with - if moreUsers mailed individually iterating
over each user - as we may seem to agree it probably should.
The subtle thing about all this and as alluded to in my subject line is
the ability for substitution. I wonder if even now with the suggestions
I could get a mailto: substitution into my global config as
$host-notify$domain leaving me only to consider how to go about grouping
users to that mailto: outside of the BackupPC environment as per the
suggestions.
The open question for deciding whether moreUsers should mail or not may
come down to consensus on where notification groups should get managed.
Can anyone else see some use at their site for moreUsers mailer capability?
Thanks all.
Mark
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