Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple nightly script?

[Scott Lamb]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> But what about catching errors?
>
> Seems like I should be sending output to a log file, grepping thru  
> it and e-mailing it to myself if anything goes wrong.
>
> I've looked at the examples at http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ 
> examples.html, but none of them seem to address this common need.

I'm not very trusting of computers, so I have a Nagios installation  
running. I have it independently check that jobs have succeeded,  
rather than looking for failed jobs. This will report failure even in  
weird circumstances - crond dies, the machine in question isn't even  
running, the network is down, whatever.

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>