On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Will <williams...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to figure out how BackupPC actually handles email
> summaries. I haven't been able to figure this out on the count that most of
> the online aggregates (including the docs) seem to lack the information
> necessary to set up the email notification. Am I missing something?
>
> Could someone provide the recepie needed to get the script to send out some
> notification on when a backup has completed or failed?
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
> PS. I know email works, I tested it via command: BackupPC_sendEmail -u
> [Email]
>

For my previous employer, I had setup a cronjob to pipe the output of `wget
-qO - http://intranet/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=summary` to mail daily
rather than relying on BackupPC_sendEmail.  This worked pretty good as my
employer liked seeing a summary even if all backups were successful.

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