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

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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