We do this with a Rexx exec that runs every night and looks at Q EVENT and
Q FILESPACE.  It sends E-mail to users based on info the their CONTACT field.
It can be configured to always send E-mail, or only after their node has not
been backed up for a certain number of days.  We use Uni-REXX on an RS/6000,
but it should be easily portable to other platforms which have Rexx available.

I do plan to make this available to others soon, probably via anonymous FTP.
I need to clean up a few things first.

..Paul

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On Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:25:02 -0700 Rusty Wright said:
On Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:25:02 -0700 Rusty Wright said:
>Is there any way to have the server, or client, send email each time
>after a backup is done?  It seems to me that having the server do it
>is probably easier since the client machine may not have email
>software installed.  Plus, adding that capability to the client
>software would just make it even bigger.
>
>The justification being that most people doing stuff on the network
>are using email, and we're probably all in the habit of checking our
>email at least once a day.  It's a lot easier to just get a message
>saying that the backups were done than it is to go and eyeball the log
>file.
>
>Of course, this would be configurable as to whether it sends email or
>not, and the address it sends it to, the amount of detail about the
>backup included in the message, etc.
>
>With something as important as backups, you don't want to assume that
>it's just happening, even if it has been cruising along nicely for a
>while.  Accidents can happen and, for example, your client being
>backed up could get accidently dropped off the server's backup list or
>somesuch.
>
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