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mk128935's avatar
mk128935
Level 5
5 years ago

System Recovery Linux Edition email notification

Hi, my understanding is that the Linux edition of System Recovery does not have any email notification feature whenever say a backup completes or a backup fails. Email notification isn't available in the Linux edition I believe. Therefore, I'm looking for another way to do this (ex. scripting, using some kind of third-party tool?) Any experience, advice on this would be appreciated. Thxs.

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  • akihiro1's avatar
    akihiro1
    5 years ago

    This script will work.

    1. Create mail-vsr-script.sh like below. This is a sample script. Please change the script as per your environment.

    <mail-vsr-script.sh>
    --------------------------------------------
    #!/usr/bin/bash

    symsr -b <Backup source> -d <Backup destination> > /root/vsr.txt
    cat -v /root/vsr.txt | mail -s "mail-subject" xxxx@xxx.xxx
    --------------------------------------------

    2. Run "chmod 755 mail-vsr-script.sh".

    3. Run "./mail-vsr-script.sh".

    4. Check the mail.

  • Markus_Koestler's avatar
    Markus_Koestler
    Moderator
    5 years ago

    We dont use the Linux Edition but on Windows there is a logfile called Veritas System Recovery.log.txt which one can parse for all events. Maybe this exists on Linux too?

  • akihiro1's avatar
    akihiro1
    Moderator
    5 years ago

    This script will work.

    1. Create mail-vsr-script.sh like below. This is a sample script. Please change the script as per your environment.

    <mail-vsr-script.sh>
    --------------------------------------------
    #!/usr/bin/bash

    symsr -b <Backup source> -d <Backup destination> > /root/vsr.txt
    cat -v /root/vsr.txt | mail -s "mail-subject" xxxx@xxx.xxx
    --------------------------------------------

    2. Run "chmod 755 mail-vsr-script.sh".

    3. Run "./mail-vsr-script.sh".

    4. Check the mail.