Re: [Burp-users] was my fault

[Graham K. <ke...@sp...>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:15:14PM +0000, Sigurður Jónsson wrote:
> Hi,
> A lot of data had creeped its way into an included directory which
> was about 40GB, which filled the disk so I'ts not the application.
> However I dont get email when backups fail unless I run them myself.
> Having scheduled backup emails saying its failing would have helped
> solve this sooner. However since I dont get mail, you can deduce
> something is wrong. It just would have been nice to see the reason
> why (the backup log).

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If you are not using it yet, you could try adding a daily summary email
cron job. It works well for me:

0 6 * * *       root    /usr/sbin/burp_summary_script /etc/burp/burp.conf
som...@ex... "Daily backup summary"