Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

Does anyone know how to setup an email notification for when backups have completed in AIX 5.3?

Thanks
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Originally posted by: apple08

you can automate the backup using cron job and grep "backup completed successfully" or the tail -f 5 of the backup log and send email to your email. does it make sense?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

No not really im new to UNIX

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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

Firstly, is sendmail set up correctly on your host ? (or postfix, exim or some other smtp mta application)

To test this do:

echo test | mail -s "test" your.email.address@your-host.whatever

Then, if it is, you can just add a "mail" command similar to above to the end of your backup script.

something like this if you are using tsm (just an example)

#!/bin/ksh

1. .. my backup script ..

dsmc incr -subdir=y /somedir ## blah blah flags blah blah
rc=$?
cat /somedir/backup.log | mail -s "Backup: blah blah rc=$rc" | your.email.address@your-host.whatever

exit $rc

1. eof

HTH
Mark Taylor
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