OT: Are your backups running?

[daN baueR]

My solution was to cat the last 10 days from the log file as users logged in. That means they have to at least look at it every day. They get to see a running status of the most recent backup results and failures will at least sometimes catch their attention.

Dan Bauer

Sent using a portable electronic communications device.  Please excuse the brevity of this message and erratic spelling/typing. 

On Dec 6, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> 
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