On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, no - my manager, who's been here a bunch of years, wrote it years ago. And I'm not quite sure what you're saying - we have a centralized logging host, and the backup cron job on each machine emails its results to our admin mailing list.
Not sure how it works there, but routine logs of things that generally work tend to get ignored. Backuppc presents a web page with the current status of all the hosts if you want the routine stuff. But more importantly it lets you designate a list of 'owners' for each target host to (a) allow access through the web interface and (b) get an email when backups have failed for a specified number of days. Emails that only come when there is a problem are generally noticed, unlike the ones that come every day and usually don't require any action.