On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:50:08PM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> backintime has a callback method that could use whatever device you wish to
> alert you to problems; the documentation is at [1] although it's a little
> sparse.
>
> This seems more robust to me than cron output because I suspect a large
> proportion of backintime's audience is going to be users who haven't set up
> local mail etc.
>
> Does that help?
It turns out that it doesn't. Backintime only uses the callback under
very limited circumstances, as given in the manpage. In particular,
the error callback appears to only be called in four specific cases:
1 The application is not configured.
2 A "take snapshot" process is already running.
3 Can't find snapshots folder (is it on a removable drive ?).
4 A snapshot for "now" already exist.
What if the device is not writable or the folder can't be created or
some other fatal error?
Poor design :-(
Julian
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