On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > I'm looking for a better way to work tape jobs. Seek input from > others.. > > > > The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when > the job is complete. > > I think that you're on the right track but you don't put the tar in the > background. If you do that then you will need a second process watching for > the first to complete. What you really want to do is put a little shell > script around the tar job, have it do the mailing, and background that. > Something like: > > #!/bin/sh > tar -cvf /dev/nst0 files > /tmp/tar.log > mail -s "Backup for `date`" sgold...@mit.edu < /tmp/tar.log > > --Rich P. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > You could take this a bit further and have it let you know in the subject if it succeeded or not. #!/bin/bash tar -cvf /dev/nst0 files > /tmp/tar.log if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then mail -s "Backup failed for `date`" sgold...@mit.edu < /tmp/tar.log exit 1 fi mail -s "Backup succeeded for `date`" sgold...@mit.edu < /tmp/tar.log -matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
