[Discuss] Idiot simple backup process.

[pw]

Andrew Burgess wrote:
> I would do that too except then they'd never be sure that the backup 
> happened. I've run into that problem before. They don't want to have to 
> know it, do it or anything but they want to know it's done. (Not that I 
> want them to do anything with it)
> 


If you run the backup as a cron job, cron will automatically send
a status email to whatever email (ie: MAILTO=somebody at somewhere.net) 
address is listed in the crontab. Just useradd a backupuser, add 
backupuser to /etc/cron.allow and then add all your backup jobs to
the crontab of backupuser.

This way the manager(s) will always be aware of the status,
good or bad, of the backup process when it happens. Just make
your backup scripts verbose enough to allow you to know when
there is a problem.

Peter