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Friday, 01 December 2017 19:15 CST

duanemitchell

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Description of my issue:

I have cron jobs to backup my sites monthly and move them to Amazon S3. I get an email report following the backup. It works fine but here is a suggestion. Include the domain name somewhere in the report.

I use strong security. My cPanel names are never related to the domain name. They are cryptic. So when I get a bunch of reports on the first day of each month I can't tell what domains are reporting in as having been backed up. I'd like to be able to read the domain name and then I can figure if there are any domains missing.

No further action is needed on this. Thank you.

Duane Mitchell

Monday, 04 December 2017 03:09 CST

nicholas

We cannot do that since these emails are sent by cPanel, not us. They simply contain the output of the command line backup script. You can, however, very easily include any custom information you please in those emails.

Just prepend your CRON command line with

echo "Your custom message goes here";

(do not forget to include the message in double quotes and follow the closing double quote by a semicolon and a space).

Example

If your current CRON command line is

/path/to/php /home/asdfasdf/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

change it to read

echo "Backing up http://www.example.com"; /path/to/php /home/asdfasdf/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

Now the first line of the email message will read

Backing up http://www.example.com

Practical uses

Since this is free form text you can add a number of keywords. You can match these keywords in mail filters or something like Microsoft Flow. The latter allows you to automate actions. For example, if you receive an email for the backup of site X that has an error you can get a push notifications on the mobile phones of the entire team that's responsible for backups.

I hope this information helps!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 04 December 2017 15:29 CST

duanemitchell

Perfect! This works! Thank you so much. It sure does help me to figure out if all my cronjob backups worked.

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