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

[Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy]

Hi,

crontab -e

opens the default editor for your crontab. as an example, mine is:

0 4 * * * backup.sh

I am using vixie-cron, so before this crontab line I have as well:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/home/my_account_name/bin

above means that each day at 4 AM it will run "backup.sh", I have this
script in directory /home/my_account_name/bin/

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab )

my "backup.sh" is rather complicated, but basically it something like:

#!/bin/sh
rdiff-backup --print-statistics /path/from/ address@hidden::/path/to/
2>&1 ; echo "RC = $?"

which means it will backup /path/from/ to remote machine example.com
under account name "user" (via ssh) and into /path/to/ on that machine,
and after backup all up echo out the return code. Since cron daemon is
executing these commands, all "echo out"/output from rdiff-backup will
get mailed to root account of the machine the crontab is installed. If
you are using vixie-cron, you can change mail address via:

address@hidden

or just

MAILTO=myaddress

(the latter will send mail to "myaddress" account on the same machine it
runs). So in case of vixie-cron (extensions) crontab (via "crontab -e")
will look like:

address@hidden
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/home/my_account_name/bin
0 4 * * * backup.sh

best,
vdm
.

On 10. 12. 2011 6:00, Arun Shrimali wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Kindly suggest, how should I configure "cron email and for
> --print-statistics"
> 
> Arun
> 
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Marian 'VooDooMan' Meravy
> <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
>> +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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