First of all big thanks to all developers of BackupPC, it is really a
very nice and useful backup tool.
I use DumpPreUserCmd (and similar options) to run mysqldump, or make
snapshots of filesystems before backup. I would like to have the output
of these mailed to me instead of being just logged.
Probably not the direction you were thinking but why not create a systemd service file for DumpPreUserCmd to start?
I'm assuming you're using a system which uses systemd...
If you prepend the command in the service file with a hyphen the unit will exit cleanly even if the command failed...
ExecStart=-/command/to/run
Then you would set your DumpPreUserCmd to "/usr/bin/systemctl start <unit>"
You would want to set the unit type to "oneshot" so it doesn't return until the command is finished.
Just a thought.
Thanks,
Richard
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