Re: [rdiff-backup-users] confirmation of Backup by rdiffbackup

[Adrian Klaver]

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. 

> 
> Arun

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