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===== When are Emails Sent ===== | ===== When are Emails Sent ===== | ||
- | Currently there a variety of situations when emails are not sent. Perhaps a configuration option should be set. At present emails are only sent out if the backup has actually started. If a machine is not available for backup then this will not generate an email report. For automated notifications regarding these situations you should schedule the lmail program at a specific interval to report the status of the backups. | + | Currently there a variety of situations when emails are not sent. With the default LBackup example configuration emails are only sent out if the backup has actually started. If a machine is not available for backup then this will not generate an email report. For automated notifications regarding these situations you should schedule the lmail program at a specific interval to report the status of the backups. Another possibility is to enable more verbose email reporting within the LBackup configuration file. |
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===== Email Locking ===== | ===== Email Locking ===== | ||
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==== Email Reporting on Every Backup Run ==== | ==== Email Reporting on Every Backup Run ==== | ||
There is a configuration option which you may set so that every time a backup configuration is executed an email is sent out regardless of the success or failure of the backup. Please examine the example lbackup configuration included in the ''/lbackup'' directory. | There is a configuration option which you may set so that every time a backup configuration is executed an email is sent out regardless of the success or failure of the backup. Please examine the example lbackup configuration included in the ''/lbackup'' directory. | ||
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