rsync script

Albert Graham agraham at g-b.net
Fri Mar 21 13:23:17 UTC 2008


One suggestion:

Wrap the rsync command and error checking in another script that you 
call from cron, the new script checks for errors, if none, output 
nothing, else output the error message, that way you only get the mail 
if there was an error.

Albert.

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
>
> MAILTO=kaushal at example.com <mailto:kaushal at example.com>
> 0 18 * * * rsync -av /var/lib/mysql kaushal at host77:/var/lib/
>
> If i put this two lines in crontab it will run correctly,My 
> requirement was to create a script, this script should indicate 
> success or failures and the reason for failure
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Kaushal 




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