Mail on error

[kocjs]

Using the user callback to get mails on error works well. However, I noticed, that in the case of denied permissions and wrong file encoding no error mail gets send. Although a desktop notification arrives.

How can i set up backintime to get mails on these errors too?

Debian Buster
Backintime 1.1.24

[buhtz]

@kocjs There is a new forming maintaining team and we do review all issues. Is this problem still relevant for you or did you find a solution?

Tag: Feature/Bug, Medium/High, Documentation, user-callback

[buhtz]

Related bug report on Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985260

[aryoda]

Related to #827 (which is the master issue for correct error handling in user-callback scripts IMHO).

See also: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/bit-dev@python.org/message/KJIYOVEVFH52PKPUDVHY7LZ2VKOX3SNK/

Edit: Perhaps this issue is different (here: error triggered from outside of the user-callback script - there: error thrown in the user-callback script)

[aryoda]

I noticed, that in the case of denied permissions and wrong file encoding no error mail gets send

I may have fixed this problem now via PR #1502 but to be sure I need to understand exactly where the error happens:

• Which of the errors ("denied permissions" + "wrong file encoding") are rsync errors during taking a snapshot (and therefor contained in the snapshot log)
• Are there errors caused by the user callback script (syntax, during execution of command...)?