Mozafar Roshany schrieb: > 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?
Having two current_mirror files means that the last session was aborted. But: Having only one current_mirror does not neccessarily mean that everything went well. When rdiff-backup fails to write to the destination or crashes early (out of memory or something) you would not notice. Looking if there was any output is a good idea, an other option is to check the return code of rdiff-backup (from the man page): > EXIT STATUS > If rdiff-backup finishes successfully, the exit status will be 0. If > there is an unrecoverable (critical) error, it will be non-zero (usu‐ > ally 1, but don't depend on this specific value). When setting up > rdiff-backup to run automatically (as from cron(8) or similar) it is > probably a good idea to check the exit code. Jakob _______________________________________________ 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
