On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 09:28:30AM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
Run your backup script under timeoout(1)?
I think that might be a (very) good answer, thank you. I can test the return status and if I get a 124 then I know it has timed out and I can echo something to standard output that will get E-Mailed to me (that mechanism works already for other backup errors).