How do you handle fail notifications?

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#1

Hi,

I am new to Duplicacy. I am using a docker container and have setup the backup jobs. I cannot create an e-mail notification in the web guy, just enter an URL. So the recommended way seems to be to use health checks.io. So I did that. Just to see that on failures Duplicacy sends a message to the hc endpoint but since it is not using the /fail endpoint and HC ignores the “result:error” part of the json message, hc still claims all is fine and does not send out notifications. I seem to be missing something. But what?

Regards
JP

#2

Emails to health-check appear to cover both failures, successes, and lacks of execution

https://healthchecks.io/docs/email/

Backup task vs job schedule: one of them expect URLs, another — email configuration.

#3

So you are sending the job schedule mails to healtchecks.io and have it process failures? Can you share your healthchecks.io config for that?

#4

Another potential approach, which I mentioned here, is this Duplicacy-to-Pushover webhook to allow Duplicacy to use the Pushover API:

I’ve played around with it a bit, and so far it appears to work fine.

Note that this is not a true monitoring solution, in that it will not notify you when Duplicacy is down, or if a scheduled job never executes. It uses the information in the Duplicacy backup reports to craft Pushover alert messages. It appears easy to modify the php script to provide different notification content, or to only send notifications based on specific conditions (e.g., backup failure, if you’ve elected to receive error reports).

This is something I stumbled upon while researching notification tools; I have no affiliation with this, and all credit belongs to bchilton9.