Backup report via email: customization

[lucamene]

Hello,

Is it possible to customize the report that amanda sends via email at the end of each backup job?
In particular I would like to change the Subject line in order to display the status of the finished job (OK or FAILED).

Thank you.

Luca

[dustin]

There's not a way to customize the subject (the question is actually a lot more complicated than "OK" or "FAILED", since Amanda is so fault-tolerant).

However, you can use the send-amreport-on parameter:
[url]http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html#id438891[/url]

[pkb]

Thanks for pointing this out, Dustin.

To make sure I understand correctly, since my amanda.conf doesn't include the "send-amreport-on" statement, the default value is 'all' which means that Amanda sends email amreports on all amdump runs, successful or not.

If I wish to have Amanda send amreports via email on ONLY non-successful amdumps, then I need to include the following statement:

send-amreport-on strange

which will then send emails on strange and/or error messages, right?

While this statement

send-amreport-on error

will generate email amreports only on error messages, but not strange messages, correct?

Thanks again for pointing this out.

-pkb

[barbyyyyyy]

Hello everyone, is possible to change the email sender of amanda reports???
I'd like to costumize this field....

thanks

[paddy]

Use .mailrc for amandabackup user to set the Sender appropriately

[davidbalt]

On Windows, is "Amanda.conf" actually zib.conf?

I've just made the changes suggested, haven't been able to determine if it worked yet.