txoof wrote:
> Update:
>
> BackupPC sent an email this morning for the system in question.  The mail was 
> for a system that has had 16.5 days since its last backup.  Is there a 
> setting that I'm missing?  Or is this controlled only by EMailNotifyMinDays?  
> From my understanding of the documents, the email should come after 3 days of 
> no backups.  Any ideas what's going on?

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_emailnotifyoldbackupdays_

> $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 7.0;
>
>     How old the most recent backup has to be before notifying user. 
> When there have been no backups in this number of days the user is 
> sent an email.

See also 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_emailnotifymindays_

> $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 2.5;
>
>     Minimum period between consecutive emails to a single user. This 
> tries to keep annoying email to users to a reasonable level. Email 
> checks are done nightly, so this number is effectively rounded up (ie: 
> 2.5 means a user will never receive email more than once every 3 days).

To do what you are trying to do, change EMailNotifyOldBackupDays to 3 
and EMailNotifyMinDays to 0.5.

Chris


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