On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:50:08PM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > 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?
That does make sense; it would be good to do something to alert users of this, though - some sort of default callback to handle errors or something like that. I can't be the only one to have run into this issue, surely? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
