If you want _status_ email, you can run script from post below by cron at any 
time you want.
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg07891.html

== sample output ==
2012-05-09 09:53
                                                  size       duration | xfer 
Share File tar
number hostname               date/time          (MB) level    (min) | Err  Err 
  Err  Err
[1691] dir1_at_host1          2012-05-09 02:05   5185     0       31 |    0     
0    0   0
[1692] dir2_at_host1          2012-05-09 02:02   1112     0        5 |    0     
0    0   0
[1692] dir1_at_host2          2012-05-09 02:00      0     1        0 |    0     
0    0   0
[1689] dir2_at_host2          2012-05-09 02:01      1     1        2 |    0     
0    0   0
[ 168] dir1_at_host3          2012-05-09 02:07   7396     0       33 |    0     
0    0   0

5 hosts
== end of sample output ==

--
Alexander Moisseev


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