Subject: Informing clients when their backup is completed

Eric,

We use the query event command, for each node, and send the output to each
user's mailbox.  For failures, I get the output from the query event command
with exceptionsonly set to yes.

Steve Windhausen
County of Onondaga

> We would like our clients (MAC and NT users) to have an easy way of knowing
> if their scheduled backup has completed successfully. The product they have
> been using, Retrospect, would cause a window to pop up once the backup had
> completed. I don't want users to have to read the dsmsched.log to determine
> if it worked or not.
> Naturally I can see centrally which schedules succeeded or failed, but we
> would like the user to also be informed.
>
> Has anyone any experience of this? How do others manage failed backups in
> large groups of users?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Winters
> Corporate Computer Services EMEA
> Munich
> Germany
>
>