Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request: email notifications about the progress

[Robert Trevellyan]

Maybe all you need is a utility that watches the mapfile for changes and
runs a script every nth time (i.e. no modifications to ddrescue)?

Robert Trevellyan

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:44 PM, ST <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > I'd like to propose following feature: email notifications about the
> > > progress. I.e. the process of creating an image of a failing drive
> might
> > > be long, very long. It would be nice to have the ability to make
> > > ddrescue inform about its progress once in a while. Like send an email
> > > to a provided address every 3 days, reporting the progress; or send an
> > > email every 25% recovered...
> >
> > It sounds interesting
>
> Yes, I faced a situation where I couldn't not access the computer
> running ddrescue but still would like to be informed about its progress.
> E.g. you go on vacation and have ddrescue running at home/work for
> several weeks...
>
> >  but difficult. Sending email requires
> > configurating some software to access the mail server. Suggestions about
> > the best way of implementing this feature are welcome.
>
> True, the mail stuff should not be part of ddrescue. All we need to add
> is some sort of "hooks" that will fire up external script/command on
> certain events (like every N days/hours/weeks or every M% recovered).
> This way we can send emails/sms/whatsoever and it will be up to user to
> configure his environment so that the notifications will be delivered
> properly. ddrescue's code will not be overloaded...
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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