[Box Backup] Suppresing duplicate notification about backup error
Wolfgang Trexler
boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:58:15 +0200
Chris Wilson schrieb:
> Thanks for reporting this. There was a missing reset of the backup-error
> suppression after a successful backup. I've added that reset now.
Thanks! btw: Are there any plans for a new release candidate?
>
>> Does it really make sense not to inform the admin about a "catastrophic"
>> failure (like the server is not reachable), because he was already
>> informed some time ago? I would prefer to get a bunch of duplicate
>> messages in this case...
>
> I'm not sure, suppression is what we've traditionally done but I'm happy
> to remove it if other people think it would be a good idea too. Hopefully
> with the suppression reset in place, it will work much better now anyway.
I still think that a backup tool should be rather aggressive in
notification on "hard errors" as these are. But I'm fine with both ways...
thanks
Wolfgang