OT: Are your backups running?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jay Ashworth propounded (on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:16:23PM -0500):
| I have a client who's running BackupEdge (thanks, Tom :-), and we love it
| just as much as we've loved it for the last 20 or 30 years, but while it is
| nice enough to send you an email every morning, telling you if the backup
| ran correctly...
| 
| that doesn't help you much if those emails are going somewhere where noone
| reads them.
| 
| Do you have BackupEdge installed on a server?  Who reads that email?
| 
| Do they know that? :-)
| 
| Consider this my Christmas present to you; a reminder to make sure you know
| that answer for every BE-running server you're responsible for.

All my customers send BackupEDGE mail to 'edgemaster', and their mail
aliases define edgemaster to be one or more employees (and often me).
A few sites also like a printed report.

But whatever or whomever or whenever: I have no way of guaranteeing
that the email or the printouts are actually read instead of scanned or
skipped or discarded.


Christmas or not, you can lead a horse to water...

-- 
JP