I have some pearl scripts that monitor the nightly backups then generates a
report at 07:00, or when the backups complete, whichever comes first. The
report gets mailed to a central Notes database that anyone can read. You
can send to individuals as well by setting up the UNIX mail aliases.

Let me know if you'd like a look at these and I'll send them to you.

Dan Giles
Application Specialist
Manulife Financial, Corporate
Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234





From: Winters Eric-a1422c <a1422c AT EUROPE.MOT DOT COM> on 99/02/24 04:23 PM 
GMT

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: ADSM)
Subject:  Informing clients when their backup is completed




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