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

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

+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, address@hidden 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
> 
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