Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:42:48AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I hadn't checked that my backups were working recently, and to my > horror discovered that nothing had been backed up since I last > checked. The reason for this? There was a directory with permissions > 1354 (!!), and rsync couldn't deal with this. So rsync bombed out > with an error and backintime therefore decided that the backup had > failed and deleted the new_backup directory. But there was no warning > - cron didn't give an error message or anything.
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? -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 <directhex> i have six years of solaris sysadmin experience, from 8->10. i am well qualified to say it is made from bonghits layered on top of bonghits
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