Re: [Duplicity-talk] Less chatty output?

[edgar . soldin]

On 08.10.2011 12:01, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> duply runs fine on my machine -- at least it looks like. But the output, 
> which I get mailed every day, is much to chatty. Much too much useless data, 
> so any important information is drown in this flood.
> 
> Is there any option to make duply print only the important messages? Or even 
> better: Mail a summary of what has been done, like this:
> 
>     Subject: backup okay (3 partitions)
> 
>     Partition home: okay
>     Partition database: okay
>     Partition mail: okay
> 
>     ... more verbose output here ...
> 
> I would not mind using an alternative implementation for duply which has this 
> feature :-) Any tips?

there are alternatives on duply.net. maybe one fits your purpose.

if i were in your sure, i'd hack it myself. checking return codes, fetching 
outputs reformat it should be done in 30min. simple shell scripting.

ede/duply.net