Hi,
Matthieu Bollot wrote on 2009-11-18 14:25:44 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] cronjob if
needed]:
> I want to send an email after 7 days since the last backup, so I could
> setEMailNotifyOldBackupDays to 6.97.
>
> But what I actually want is to send an e-mail at 12am. So I could make a
> cron job :
> 00 00 12 * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup
> host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1
the status e-mails are sent by BackupPC_sendEmail, which is called by
BackupPC_nightly, not by BackupPC_dump, so triggering a backup won't result in
the e-mail being sent (even if the backup is unsuccessful). If you can arrange
for BackupPC_nightly to be run at the time you want the e-mails to be sent,
that should take care of what you want to achieve (except that the e-mails are
sent *after* pool cleanup, which will be an arbitrary - possibly large - amount
of time later). The question is whether that is a good time in your
circumstances to run the pool cleanup.
Hint: BackupPC nightly is run on the first hour in $Conf{WakeupSchedule}.
If the time is inconvenient for pool maintenance, you can probably call
BackupPC_sendEmail directly, but that won't prevent it from also being called
from BackupPC_nightly, so *some* of the emails will probably be sent from
there (for hosts which have become "overdue" between last BackupPC_sendEmail
call and BackupPC_nightly run).
As for the time, are you talking about midnight (12am, '00 00' in crontab) or
noon (12pm, '00 12' in crontab - I suppose you weren't intending to do this
only on midnight of the twelfth of each month ('00 00 12' in crontab) as your
crontab entry suggests ;-)?
> Now, more difficult (that's why I'm sending an email) I want to do both
> of them.
> after 6days, the next time it is 12am I send an email.
> ie :
> I backup monday 1st at 5pm,
> I receive an email monday 8th at 12am.
This suggests you probably mean noon (12pm).
> And backup when receiving the email
I don't quite understand what you're intending here. Are you intending to
script a reaction to overdue backups? Is that possible? If so, wouldn't it be
better to make backups succeed when scheduled in the first place
(DumpPreUserCmd or PingCmd)?
Or do you want to replace BackupPC's scheduling? Or are you talking about
manual intervention by the person reading the e-mail?
> [...] I will do this in shell but the results of backuppc_servermesg seems
> to be perl, isn't it ?
Strictly speaking it's a string which happens to parse as one or more Perl
assignments (once you remove the "Got reply:") - at least for the 'status'
command, that is. It is probably much easier to do anything meaningful with
the value in Perl than in a shell script.
Regards,
Holger
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
|
