Hi Germar, It's not even the email notifications which are the core of the problem - those can be wrapped around the backintime script. The heart of the problem is that when backintime fails catastrophically (no backup created at all, for example), it still exits with a zero exit code. This is just Bad.
In common/backintime.py, in the start_app function, we see code like: if arg == '--backup' or arg == '-b': take_snapshot( cfg, True ) sys.exit(0) Instead, if it were something like: if arg == '--backup' or arg == '-b': ret = take_snapshot( cfg, True ) sys.exit(ret) (or perhaps more sophisticated than this), and take_snapshot were tweaked to return a code indicating whether the snapshot succeeded or whether there were minor or serious errors, it would be automatic for cron to warn that there was a failed job. HTH! Thanks, Julian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409005 Title: [enhancement] Feature Request Email Notifications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/409005/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs