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=ga...@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) -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki