Am 10.03.2010 18:02, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 03/09 11:15 , Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Is it possible to make BackupPC send an email after a successful backup?
>>
>> Right now, I only see it will notify on backup failures.
>
> This has been asked several times in the past.
> Usually it's been pointed out that it's a poor idea; since it's backwards of
> the Unix philosophy that 'no news is good news', which is based on the fact
> that it's really hard to notice the *absence* of something.

Unless your mailing system on the backup host broke down while the 
backups are failing, too.

Or you want to graph some stats etc.


> All that said, there are some scripts which have been posted to this mailing
> list in the past, to do what you want.

Thanks for pointing out.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org



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