[Box Backup-dev] Merging to trunk

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Scott,

>>> I was wondering how hard it would be to implement a system call to an 
>>> external program when the backup start and stop. It would make it 
>>> really easy to monitor the progress of backups.
>>
>> Not hard at all, we can extend the NotifyScript. I'll try to do it this 
>> evening. (But it won't give you a lot of information about the number 
>> of errors, etc.)
>
> I was hoping for something simple like. START and STOP or ERROR ?

OK, implemented in chris/merge, should be in 0.11.

The NotifyScript is now called with "backup-start" and "backup-finish" at 
the start and (normal) termination of each run. If the run terminated 
abnormally, "backup-error" is called instead.

> (If you were close I would take you out for a beer)

I wouldn't mind, where are you? I'm in Cambridge.

Cheers, Chris.
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