On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > I'd say yes on both.
Thank you, Rolf. > There is a clock which switches the power supply of the HD stand on > about 5 minutes before cron starts the backup. Off-time is at 3 hours > later, which is enough anyway (it never has taken more than 90 - 100 > minutes yet). I need to research incorporating the 'time' command in the script so that value is included in the report mailed to me. My incremental daily tape backups would take only a few minutes to run. The full backups would take a few hours, but that should be much less now as dirvish is only copying changes. > As to mail, yes there are surprises in the backups. If you let it run and > trust all is running fine, ok for you. But a backup is an automatic > procedure, and it's better to care for it from time to time. I don't > remember if I defined anything for it, it just comes up with a digest mail > to root every morning, and I let it forward to my account so my > Thunderbird can collect it (which uncovered a bug in TB, by the way). The wiki has an example with a script that reports status. I need to carefully read it so I understand what it's doing and how it works, then incorporate the parts I want in the script that cron calls. > Hope it helps... :-) Certainly does! I appreciate your help, and that of everyone here. Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
