Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread P. Mazart
Hi, On Wed, 21.09.2011 08:01:58, Richard Shaw wrote: I think that by design, No news is good news. So true! ;-) One way I can think of to get something would be to pull the host summary with something like wget, do some cleanup or even remove all the HTML and then use sendmail to create an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Alexander
Another option would be, if you have to have that positive affirmation, and if you are running Nagios on your network, there is a plugin/check called check_backuppc, which will issue an alert in Nagios if any monitored host does not get backed up. From the help file: $ check_backuppc -h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
I was going to say exactly that. Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very poor substitute. Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions Inc. Sent from my iPad On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Another

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: I was going to say exactly that.  Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very poor substitute.  Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring. On the other hand, all you really have to do is look at the host

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.  I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 for about 3 years now and love it.  It just works. I go into the Web admin UI once a week or so and check the host summary to make sure backups are chugging along. Is it

[BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC email me a summary of system status?

2011-09-20 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 for about 3 years now and love it. It just works. I go into the Web admin UI once a week or so and check the host summary to make sure backups are chugging along. Is it possible for BackupPC to email me that summary? I looked at /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail but