I have some rsync commands scheduled in a crontab to backup data to another server. It's working great, but right now i'm manually checking folder sizes to see if they're match up for the most part since i don't really know what's happening when they run.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could add something that emails me every time it runs saying like how much data the rsync added or deleted when it ran?

Guess i'm trying to simulate backup software that can email you a log of what each backup job did.

Are you doing this by a script or by a single line in your crontab? By default crond should e-mail you the results of anything it runs unless the output is being redirected. What's the line you have in your crontab?

i dont have access to the server now, but in the crontab its just a rsync -options /path/ /path2/ type command

Check there's nothing like at the end, and also check to see if there's any in the crontab above your line.

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crond(8) mails stdout / stderr from each cronjob to the user it is running as. If that's root, then check his mail:
If you'd like the output to be mailed to a different user (even an external one), then utilize the crontab(5) MAILTO variable (mentioned above), or set up a mail alias.

there is not a /dev/null or a MAILTO in the crontab for that user

So add one.

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you can use this ,I didnt know how your network is setup and where the backup server is, but since your rsyning I know you have at least key authentication, so it should be simple.Just use this script below.It will rsync your data as you always do, and present you with a log of what was done.It will then tell you whether or not both directories are the same in an email.

#!/bin/bash

PATH=/var/www
BACKUP=root@123.1.20.5:/usr/src
LOCALFOLDER=/var/www

COMMAND=$(rsync -options $PATH $BACKUP > ssh_log.txt.$(date + %F))


#WONT WORK
#instead do the following


REMOTEFOLDER=$(ssh root@111.111.111.1 'ls -lA /var/www'| grep -E '^total' | cut -d " " -f 2 > remotessh.txt)

COMMAND=$(ls -lA $LOCALFOLDER | grep -E '^total' | cut -d " " -f 2 > localssh.txt)


REM=$(cat remotessh.txt)
LOCAL=$(cat localssh.txt)
#Or you can choose to diff the two files here.

if [ $REM -eq $LOCAL ]
then
echo Directories are the same
echo ssh_log.txt.$(date + %F) | mail -s "SSH LOGS"
else

echo Directories are differnt

fi

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Thanks. I'm not even sure how to tell if mail is setup, but at least i got some things to try out, see what works.

No prob, well I tested it out and this script is more efficient:It will do the same thing, tell you what has been done in rsync and then tell you if the directories are different.Mail command is just (mail -s "Rsync Logs" admin@mypplace.net)

#!/bin/bash

rsync -avz /var/www/* root@111.111.111.1:/hfs/ > ssh_log.txt

rsync -avz --dry-run /var/www/* root@111.111.111.1:/hfs/ >>ssh_log.txt


echo ssh_log.txt | mail -s "Rsync Logs" admin@mypplace.net

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Sorry for the late reply. Thanks cbt. So which parts are key to add to my existing commands but in a .sh? obviously the last line that does the mail (once i figure out if mail is even setup or set it up myself), then just making sure my rsync's have verbose enabled and sending them to the text file?