Email Notification

[Slayer Slayer]

Hello All,

I would like to know how to receive the email notification when the backup is done or when it fails.
Can anyone give me any tip for that ?
I have the sendmail already setup.
TRU64 4.0G

Thanks in Advance.

Regards

Bruno

[Matt Palmer_2 · Accepted solution]

if you are using the vdump command, you could redirect stderr out stdout to a logfile, and then use something like:

(cat stderrfile)|mailx -s 'backup report' user@domain.com.

HTH

regards

Matt

[Slayer Slayer]

Hey Matt Thanks for the response.

Yes i am using VDUMP ...
Can you tell me how to redirect stderr out stdout ?How do i do that ?

Thanks a lot my friend ..

Regards

Bruno

[Matt Palmer_2]

Hi Bruno,

example:

/sbin/vdump -0 -C -F 16 -f ${NTAPE} / >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1


the 2>&1 tells shell to redirect output to $LOGFILE

HTH

regards

Matt

[Slayer Slayer]

Thanks again Matt

So here is what i have with VDUMP -

/sbin/vdump -0uf /dev/nrmt0h /

So if i want it to be send to a log file i just put like this :

/sbin/vdump -0uf /dev/nrmt0h / >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1

But i have 5 file systems to be backup so do i have to put >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1 on every file system ?
Can I make only one log to all file systems ?

Thanks a lot

Regards

Bruno

[Matt Palmer_2]

Hi if you have 5 filesystems, you can either specify 5 different definitions of ${LOGFILE}, i.e:${LOGFILE1} $LOGFILE2,etc

or you could tag each vdump line with an identifing label for each filesystem to make it unique in the list, and just pipe it all to one logfile, as the current command I sent you does. (The use of the double-chevron '>>' means 'append-to'.

regards

Matt

[Ralf Puchner]

Bruno,

I see you have not really understood how the score system works ;-)

Please assign only 10 points for the answer who solved the problem not for each one...