Re:Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backup...
by minimal-o on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:05PM
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Same here. I have a wrapper script that runs restic commands. Whether I run it in a console or per crontab stdout/stderr is logged to a file and is emailed to me (in the crontab case). Nothing fancy yet, but it works and I am satisfied. Still pretty new to restic though. In another life I had a disaster recovery role and was using DLT for backup / restore of all the things, so ...
On Linux I used cron + email. You can setup postfix such that you use your personal gmail or whatever, then you will be able to do "echo message" | mail -s youremail.com to send an email. They (big email providers) always allow you to send an email as yourself to yourself.
On Windows, I used the native task scheduler (with various triggers like time, lock workstation, idle and so on) and send an email using powershell, which can also send emails using SMTP.