Or, instead of getting flooded with emails you can have scheduler (like cron) send you the output from bpdbjobs that will tell you in one emil all of the failed jobs.
We do both. Email only on failure, but only for production servers, so we have filtering built into the failure notification code inside "backup_exit_notify"... and we also have a scheduled task that runs just before we get in that lists and summarizes failures and a separate email for successful backups.
if using version 6 then use NOM which will integrate with your existing smtp server including exchange if on windows. there is a section in NOM for alerting either by snmp or smtp. The built in alert to use is called 'Finalized' (stupid name but it actually means final job status) an dit can be triggered to send alerts on non zero values or values > 1 if you don't want alerting on partial successfull completion.
I think I asked almost the same thing either in this forum or in another one. I don't know DOS and asked for help. I'm glad there are people like Dave to help us out on the Dark side of operating systems. Isn't that what the D stands for in DOS? Darkside Operating System?
Anyhow, Dave has given you the proper syntax. Enjoy!
