[Box Backup] Upgrade issue

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:55:13 +0100 (CET)


Hi Paulo,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Paulo Almeida wrote:

> For us, no matter if this kind of statistics will be displayed by default
> or by a switch option in daemon startup.

Does the switch work for you?

> So, we think that it would be very useful if boxbackup being able to 
> register in some kind of database (sql, db,... whatever) all the events 
> that are happening, i.e., errors on backup, start/end of a backup, 
> ammount of data that was transfered on a backup, etc... Well, maybe this 
> kind of things already are possible, cause quite honestly we didn't 
> explore all the features, just some of them :)

You can already do most of this with the notify script. It doesn't 
currently receive statistics, but you can grep them out of the system 
logs.

Cheers, Chris.
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