Quoting Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 21 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > MAILTO=kaushal@example.com
>> > 0 18 * * * rsync -av /var/lib/mysql kaushal@host77:/var/lib/

Run rsync through a script that tests the exit value, then prints an
error message if the exit value is not equal to 0 and nothing
otherwise.  Run the script from cron and it will send you an e-mail if
there is a problem.

In bash, $? is the exit value of the last command.  This is a bit
verbose, but you could put the following in rsync-host77.sh:

  #!/bin/bash
  TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S:%N`
  rsync -av /bogus foo@bar:/bogus/ &>rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log
  EXITVALUE=$?
  if [[ "${EXITVALUE}" -ne "0" ]]
  then
        echo "Error:  rsync exited with status ${EXITVALUE}"
        echo " "
        echo "Please check the file rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log for errors."
  fi

To find exit values and their corresponding meanings, search for "EXIT
VALUES" in

  http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/rsync.1.php

Hope this helps,

-Collin

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