No Email Notification if Backup fails?

[deveth0]

Hi,

i've setup my proxmox to backup to a nfs target every night. I receive mails when the backup is finished, that's great.
Yesterday a switch failed and the proxmox system could not access the nfs anymore. I would assume to get a email from proxmox that it was not possible to perform the backup. But instead nothing happened.

The logs do not even hint at the failure. There is a log entry in proxmox for 22.09.2014 4:00 with the last successful backup and then nothing more.

What I would love to see:
* get a email that it was not possible to perform the backup
* get a log entry that it was not possible to perform the backup

Regards

 

[danielmash]

G'day

I guess backup was performed to the mountpoint instead. Does the log file report success? Sorry your log example is not clear.

To monitor NFS mounted you can use monitoring tools like nagios, own writen scripts or nfswatch for more advanced.

Also you can modify your own pre-processing and post-processing in vzdump-hook.script.pl. Read script example and documentation for more details.
For example I have service stop and start for a particular CT. Postprocessing to make differencial backups. Copying encrypted imagest to remote site.

 

[deveth0]

Hi,

thank you for your answer. The backup was not even started, therefor no backup to the mountpoint.
Those are the last log-entries:


I got mail from my nagios that the nfs is not available but I would assume to get a backup failed message from proxmox too