BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a way to get better reporting on failed backups?

2008-12-07 21:31:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a way to get better reporting on failed backups?
From: Dale King <dale AT daleking DOT org>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:29:37 +1100
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 02:08:33PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> One of Windows backps has now failed consecutively about 20 times in
> the last 2 days with the message:
>       Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
> I am not getting any email messages about these failures and I only
> even realized it because when running 'top' I noticed that this
> particular dump seems to always be running.

This can be handled by a $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} script.  It sounds like
you may want to add in logic to only email on failure.

See:
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg05788.html



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