Re: Mail upon successful backup

If you want something more elaborate with notifications when the cron job didn't run or succeed in a certain time frame you could look into Nagios passive checks. If you do that it would make sense to have some active checks for things like low diskspace too though.

Matthias Hörmann

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:

--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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