Re: [BackupPC-users] send an email upon successful backup?

On 3/10/2010 11:02 AM, 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.
>
> All that said, there are some scripts which have been posted to this mailing
> list in the past, to do what you want.

Yes, it is really better to just look at your host summary page often 
enough to catch problems before they are serious.  If you need an email 
reminder, just mail yourself the link every morning - and when you click 
it, glance down the 'last backup (days) column.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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