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10-02-2009

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Email script when automatic backup is finsihed

Hello all,

i'm still new to this site and thought i might find some help here Smilie

.
lately i performed a script to make an automatic backup of some files in certain directories. the script looks something like this:

Code:

#! /bin/bash

##############VARIABLES

path=/export/home/cassi/Backup
timestamp=`date +%Y%m%d`
host=`hostname`
file_in=$path/files2tar
tarfile=$path/$host-$timestamp-bak.tar

################TAR AND GZIP FILES

data=`cat $file_in`
tar cf $tarfile $data
/usr/bin/gzip $tarfile

With this script the backup of files works fine. This script is also set as a cronjob to be run weekly.

My question is this. I need to find a way to make an automatic email if all files are successfully transfered. is there a way to perform this?

Thanks for reading,

Matthew

Last edited by vgersh99; 10-02-2009 at 09:38 AM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!

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backup-whatsthis

BACKUP-WHATSTHIS(1)						   Chiark-backup					       BACKUP-WHATSTHIS(1)

NAME

       backup-whatsthis - read an id off a tape and display it

SYNOPSIS

       backup-whatsthis [--list [n]]

DESCRIPTION

       `backup-whatsthis'  is a simple script to display the TAPEID of the current tape and optionally list its contents.  This script is a bit of
       a hack and may not be fully reliable.

OPTIONS

       --list [n] Print TAPEID then list archive n (default 0). Note that archives are numbered from zero.

FILES

       /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl
	      Configuration file for the whole of chiark-backup

BUGS

       `backup-whatsthis' is currently hardwired to assume `cpio' type backups when listing; it could be trivially hardwired to assume `zafio'	or
       with slightly more effort it could be done properly :->.

AUTHOR

       This Manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> but may be used by anyone.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1997-1998,2000-2001 Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
       Copyright (C) 1999 Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

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