On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:01:28PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:38 +0000, Chris G wrote:
That's how I'm doing it at the moment. :-) Yes, it does do what I want from the security point of view but it's less "user friendly" from the point of view of knowing if the backup worked.
If I can get a similar level of safety of backup with a 'push' mode then it's *much* easier to get told when a backup has failed.
Why not add to the script so that success/errors get trapped and emailed to you ?
That's OK as long as the backup system hasn't fallen over and the connection to it is still working. However the most likely failure is that the cable has been broken or disconnected.
I did actually ask this question a while ago and there *are* solutions but they're not as easy as provided by a local cron 'pushing' the data.