[SOLVED] Backup Client NULL message Body

[kwat]

Hi:

I'm using proxmox-backup-client 2.3.3-1 on PVE 7.3-6. I'm having problems getting email notifications when I run the following commands as root from PVE:

export PBS_PASSWORD and PBS_FINGERPRINT
proxmox-backup-client backup etc.pxar:/etc --include-dev /etc/pve --repository bkmgr@pbs\!fsbackup@192.168.10.9:backup1 --ns pve-config | mail -s "PVE Config Backup" account@gmail.com

The backup command runs successfully but the mail command outputs "NULL message body, hope that's ok". Email is sent but the message body is empty.

Both the backup command and mail command work as expected when run separately. I substitute echo for proxmox-backup-client and pipe into mail.

Any suggestions on why this is happening?

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

with | alone you are only piping stdout, try using 2>&1 | so stderr gets also piped to mail.

 

[kwat]

Yes. I needed to pipe STDERR to mail command also.
Thanks.