On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:50:39AM +1000, Gavin wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I back up a directory to a remote system by rdiff-backup and I'm doing
> it as periodic cron jobs. How can I find out that a back-up session
> failed? I saw an entry at the FAQ that told about two
> current_mirror_XXXX files with different dates. Is it enough to check
> this situation?
>
Any output (i.e. an error or warning) from rdiff-backup will be
E-Mailed by cron to the owner of the cron job. So, if rdiff-backup
runs totally successfully you will get no output, if it fails you will
get an error message.
If the owner of the cron job isn't a user who reads mail then you can
set the environment variable MAILTO in the crontab to send the mail
where you want, i.e. add a line like the following to your crontab:-
[email protected],reads.mail
If you want to get confirmation that the crontab has been run then you
can put simple 'echo' lines in the script that runs rdiff-backup. They
will then appear as mail sent to the above MAILTO user.
(All the above applies to cron on modern Linux, if your rdiff-backup
is running on something else then read the man pages for cron and
crontab to confirm it's the same)
--
Chris Green
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