Most backup jobs are fire and forget. You set them up, and they run. In such an environment, it is easy to forget about backups until the time when you need them (that is to recover a file, folder or entire server). One thing you can do is to generate a daily report on the state of backup on a critical server. You can run this report early every morning, and email it to one or more people in your organization to notify them of any issues that may have arisen with processing backups on critical servers.
This recipe creates a scheduled task which sends an email containing a summary of backup operations on your server, in this case: you use the file server FS1. This recipe is in two parts: the first part is a simple script that creates a backup report (on FS1) and the used email to send you the backup report. The second part of this recipe sets up the scheduled task that runs the backup report script. This second script also summarizes the results of setting up the...
