rsync email notification on success and failure + Log

Warren Oates warren.oates at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 08:04:48 MST 2010


Hi:

Let cron(8) run your script for you. Cron will happily email you the
verbose output from rsync after its task has run.
man cron
man crontab
man 5 crontab

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Sébastien Arpin <sebarpin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bash script for rsync that should tranfer all my filer from one
> drive to the other.
>
> I would like to know how I can make the script sending me an email after the
> script is run and be able to know if it was a success or not and also if
> possible to include the log file.
>
> This is my script:
>
> !/bin/bash
>
> rsync -av --delete --log-file=/home/duffed/RSyncLog/$(date
> +%Y%m%d)_rsync_Multimedia.log /media/Multimedia/ /media/MultimediaBackUp
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Sébastien
>
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