On Sunday 10 January 2010 4:25:41 am Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:50:39AM +1000, Gavin wrote:
Hi all
I back up a directory to a remote system by rdiff-backup and I'm
doing it as periodic cron jobs. How can I find out that a back-up session
failed? I saw an entry at the FAQ that told about two
current_mirror_XXXX files with different dates. Is it enough to
check this situation?
Any output (i.e. an error or warning) from rdiff-backup will be
E-Mailed by cron to the owner of the cron job. So, if rdiff-backup
runs totally successfully you will get no output, if it fails you will
get an error message.
If the owner of the cron job isn't a user who reads mail then you can
set the environment variable MAILTO in the crontab to send the mail
where you want, i.e. add a line like the following to your crontab:-
MAILTO=gavin < at > wherever.gavin,reads.mail
If you want to get confirmation that the crontab has been run then you
can put simple 'echo' lines in the script that runs rdiff-backup. They
will then appear as mail sent to the above MAILTO user.
(All the above applies to cron on modern Linux, if your rdiff-backup
is running on something else then read the man pages for cron and
crontab to confirm it's the same)
The other option is to increase the verbosity(vN) level. It runs at a default of
3, I found a level of 4 or 5 works well. 4 shows something happening, 5 shows
the files that are being updated/added.
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver < at > gmail.com
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