Unix Tip: DAILY BACKUP CHECK

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Unix Tip 2980 - April 4, 2010

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DAILY BACKUP CHECK

System administrators have to check by various means whether the daily backup is sucessfully completed.

One way is to maintain a short log file which will log 4 or 5 lines everytime the backup is completed.

The latest backup results will be automatically checked by System administrator on login, if he adds these lines at the end of his .profile file.

tail -5 /PATH/SHORT_LOG_FILE.log

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