On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:03:52 am Dave Howorth wrote: > fostandy wrote: > > Hi, I'm new to this backup game. I'm wondering if there is a > > straightforward way I can make dirvish (or it's pre/post exec scripts) > > send an email if any stage of the backup process fails? > > My cron is set up to mail me with whatever output the job produces. So > there's no need for me to do anything at all to get errors. > > It does mean I normally get a mail every day telling me that the backup > has run. But the absence of that mail tells me there's something wrong > elsewhere in the system ... >
Looking for something like this? It adds [**] to the subject if there an error of some kind. Subject: Dirvish status (2009-04-15@(altered-host)) Disk usage: 3.5G 2.0G 1.5G 59% (altered-directory) Image disk usage: 4.1M (altered-image-location) ================== (altered-vault) ================== client: (altered-client) tree: (altered-tree) rsh: ssh Server: yertle Bank: (altered-bank) vault: (altered-vault) branch: default Image: 2009-04-15 Reference: 2009-04-14 Image-now: 2009-04-15 09:09:41 Expire: +4 weeks == 2009-05-13 09:09:41 Expire-rule: * * * * * +4 weeks (altered exceptions) SET permissions devices numeric-ids stats UNSET checksum init sparse whole-file xdev zxfer ACTION: rsync -vrltH --delete -pgo --stats -D --numeric-ids --exclude-from=(altered-exclude --link-dest=(altered-link-dest (altered-backup-client) (altered-backup-destination) Backup-begin: 2009-04-15 09:09:41 Backup-complete: 2009-04-15 09:10:52 Status: success _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
