Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Hook on backup completion

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "KE" == Keith Edmunds <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:11:47 +0000

  KE> What I'd like to do is detect on the backup server when each
  KE> client finishes its backup. I had thought of creating an
  KE> additional directory on the clients with one "flag" file in it,
  KE> to be backed up after the main data backup; the backup server
  KE> could regularly check for the presence of the flag and take the
  KE> appropriate action when it sees the file.

  KE> However, I was wondering if the session_statistics file could be
  KE> used instead. Is it true to say that this file does not exist
  KE> until the backup is complete? In other words, if I waited until
  KE> that file, with the correct date, appeared (and then maybe
  KE> waited one minute to ensure that the session_statistics file has
  KE> been fully written), would that be a reasonable guarantee that
  KE> the backup was complete?

The session_statistics trick will probably work fine, but it does
depend on an incidental fact about rdiff-backup.  Why not stick the
notification in the script that runs rdiff-backup?  The script could
run rdiff-backup and then, if that finished successfully, notify the
server.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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