A Mennucc wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:33:18AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:12 +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
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>>>Each day I receive a long email with all details of what dump did;
>>>I would appreciate if there was a wait to quiet dump
>>>
>>>
>>The approach taken by most backup systems (like amanda, bacula, etc)
>>that wrap invocations of dump, tar, etc., is to redirect stdout/stderr
>>to a log file, and then post-process the log file.
>>
>>
>
>yes, I thought of it, I will probably change my code to
> dump -f - 2> dumplog | ssh backuphost 'dd of=backup'
> egrep -v 'blah|blah' dumplog
>
>Still a -quiet option would be much nicer...
>indeed, in the above approach, if I run my script interactively,
>I will not see error messages until dump is done
>
>unfortunately shell code does not admit "double pipes", that is ,
>some magic code looking like
> dump -f - \
> 1>| { ssh backuphost 'dd of=backup' ; }
> 2>| { egrep -v 'blah|blah' ; }
>where two pipes are opened at the same time, for fd 1 and fd 2
>(that would be cool... I will open a wishlist on bash :-)
>
>a.
>
>ps: I use my backup system on 6 different PCs, that is why I am annoyed
> by the emails... I am now annoyed by the dump blah blah, and
> I do not read the emails, so I may skip some other important cron messages
>
>ps2: you may wonder why I do not use amanda/bakula/etc :
> I started writing my backup scripts some years ago, then they improved
> in the years, and they do the job very well for me
>
>
>
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