On 11/18/2013 06:29 AM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: >> >As the title, I have set up a backuppc server on ubuntu and it runs ok so >> >far. And I want to get an email notification about the backup status >> >instead of check everyday on server. >> > >> >Any tips or piece of document will help. >> > > BackupPC don't send periodic mails, but you can set a cron job. > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=52613000.1080806%40galilee.fr&forum_name=backuppc-users
But BackupPC does automatically send email to the system administrator when it sees an irregualarity. There are several ways to avoid that mail to the system administrator (root by default) disappears in a black hole. I do a combination of two things: 1. define the system administrator as harms@localhost (I dont know how this is done in Ubuntu, but should be easy - harms is my login name) 2. set up an account for the email address "harms@localhost" in my email user agent; that, again this is specific to what you use. Thunderbird allows to do this by creating an account of type "unix mail spool". This way of doing has the advantage that I see - and get notified about - new mail in that account just as for my ordinary mail. Personally, I do not want to be plagued by periodic health messages which normally just say OK - I have the habit of periodically (>= 1 week intervals) having a close look at what is going on - could be automated, not worth while for mem, though Juergen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
