Hi, crontab -e
opens the default editor for your crontab. as an example, mine is: 0 4 * * * backup.sh I am using vixie-cron, so before this crontab line I have as well: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/home/my_account_name/bin above means that each day at 4 AM it will run "backup.sh", I have this script in directory /home/my_account_name/bin/ (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab ) my "backup.sh" is rather complicated, but basically it something like: #!/bin/sh rdiff-backup --print-statistics /path/from/ [email protected]::/path/to/ 2>&1 ; echo "RC = $?" which means it will backup /path/from/ to remote machine example.com under account name "user" (via ssh) and into /path/to/ on that machine, and after backup all up echo out the return code. Since cron daemon is executing these commands, all "echo out"/output from rdiff-backup will get mailed to root account of the machine the crontab is installed. If you are using vixie-cron, you can change mail address via: [email protected] or just MAILTO=myaddress (the latter will send mail to "myaddress" account on the same machine it runs). So in case of vixie-cron (extensions) crontab (via "crontab -e") will look like: [email protected] PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/home/my_account_name/bin 0 4 * * * backup.sh best, vdm . On 10. 12. 2011 6:00, Arun Shrimali wrote: > Dear All, > > Kindly suggest, how should I configure "cron email and for > --print-statistics" > > Arun > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> +1 for cron email and for --print-statistics as well, I have no problems >> with these. >> >> of course, mentioned nagios solution might be interesting too, but I >> will try it when I will have extra time to configure nagios ;-) (since I >> have never seen it yet live...). >> >> best, >> vdm >> . >> >> On 9. 12. 2011 15:27, [email protected] wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:12:17AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: >>>> On Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:31:43 pm Arun Shrimali wrote: >>>>> Dear All, >>>>> >>>>> I have configured rdiffbackup for my server, which is working >> perfectly for >>>>> daily incremental remote backup. >>>>> >>>>> But to confirm that the backup has been done successfully, I have to >> go to >>>>> backup server and check the file /rdiff-backup-data/backup.log >>>>> >>>>> Is there any other way (through e-mail) to confirm that backup has been >>>>> done successfully.... >>>> >>>> Don't know if this would work for you but I have several backups >> running via >>>> cron jobs and I get an email though cron. The amount of information is >>>> controllable through the -vX switch where X is an integer 0-9 indicating >>>> increasing verbosity. >>>> >>> >>> +1 for cron email. Except I use --print-statistics >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >>> Wiki URL: >> http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >> Wiki URL: >> http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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