Re: Mail upon successful backup

[Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>]

--As of December 26, 2012 1:32:06 PM +0100, Amar Cosic is alleged to have 
said:

> Hello list,
>
> anyone could give me idea how can I mail myself upon successful backup.
> Something like: "backup on server xxx finished OK" and maybe output
> tarsnap data (size of that backup etc..).
>
> What I currently use for backup is something like this in cron:
>
> tarsnap -c -f backup-`date +\%Y\%m\%d` /etc /var/www/vhosts

--As for the rest, it is mine.

I have basically the same thing in cron (I add --humanize-numbers), and I 
do get emails via the normal cron mechanism.  Do you get other emails from 
cron?

Daniel T. Staal

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