[Box Backup] Eventlog full with warnings

[Roy]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Roy wrote:
>
>   
>>>>>> In my eventlog I see the following warnig: WARNING: Suppressing 
>>>>>> duplicate notification about backup-ok
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is not new, and I had it with the previous build already. 
>>>>>> But why is this? I only see one message with backup-ok, so I 
>>>>>> don't know what Box Backup is suppressing.
>>>>>>             
>> First run (on start of service) there is a message saying backup-ok:
>> NOTICE: About to notify administrator about event backup-ok, running script
>> 'cscript "C:\Program Files\Box Backup\NotifySysAdmin.vbs" backup-ok'
>>
>> But in next runs it doesn't. Is that the desired behavior? I would expect the
>> cycle backup-start, backup-ok and backup-finish in every run.
>>     
>
> That is what I expected and it is the desired behaviour. The ultimate 
> state of your backups hasn't changed since the first run. They are still 
> OK. Therefore you don't get notified about it again. backup-start and 
> backup-finish are different because people may want to hook events on 
> them, such as creating and deleting database snapshots, and are unlikely 
> to want to produce an email (unless it's a backup report).
>
> If one backup was to produce an error, then you would get a backup-error 
> notification. After that, you will not get any more notifications until a 
> backup succeeds, or the error type changes, in which case you will get 
> backup-ok or read-error notifications.
>
> You can override this behaviour using the NotifyAlways setting in your 
> config file, e.g. NotifyAlways = yes, which will suppress the suppression 
> of duplicate events. Alternatively, you can record the state of the last 
> backup notification (other than backup-start or backup-finish) in a text 
> file and use it when you receive a backup-finish event to generate an 
> email, confident in the knowledge that it hasn't changed since.
>
> If this is not what you want, then let's discuss it here on the mailing 
> list, as others have complained about suppression (or lack of it) in the 
> past and I'm not sure that there's a "right answer" except to make it 
> configurable (which I have, with the NotifyAlways option).
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>   
The behavior, is good, now that it is clear. But I didn't understand it 
right away, maybe that should be cleared up on the wiki (or maybe it is 
already?)? What you write here, makes it clear to me.
And I think the change from warning to notice, is probably good. Because 
there is noting to be warned about when the backup is still ok.

Cheers,

Roy