Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Find out Failed Backup

[Adrian Klaver]

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:-
>
>     address@hidden,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. 

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Adrian Klaver
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