vee-mail

Simple Script to get Mails from Free Veeam Agent for Linux

vee-mail uses the sqlite database which get's filled from Veeam Agent for Linux Free in /var/lib/veeam/veeam_db.sqlite. The Linux version from Veeam Agent does not send notification e-mails like the windows version. So this script reads the data from the sqlite database and fills it into the template file which get's sent per mail to you.

Dependencies

veeam
sqlite3 (>= 3.7.0)
curl (to send mail and/or to check for updates)
sendmail (your system should be able to send mails with sendmail command - postfix, bsd-mailx, nullmailer,...)

By default sendmail is used to send the report.
If you choose to use curl to send the report (USECURL=1 in config file) then sendmail is not necessary and won't be installed.

Install

git clone https://github.com/grufocom/vee-mail
move the directory "vee-mail" to /opt or any other directory you would like to install it into change vee-mail.config file to your needs.
chmod +x vee-mail.sh

Use

You can use the vee-mail script as a post-backup script directly in veeam (Configure - select Job, Advanced/Scripts/Post-Job) or start it manualy after the veeam backup has run:

/opt/vee-mail/vee-mail.sh

Release notes

Version 0.5.43

get jobname from veeam database and fix disk statistics

Version 0.5.42

df does not understand regex, so we need a grep to get only the path we need

Version 0.5.41

df without grep and going into background directly after reading config file

Version 0.5.40

Fix password issue

Version 0.5.39

Bugfix version check

Version 0.5.38

fix message blank line ending header following RFC (fix reception by outlook.com)

Version 0.5.37

offer use of curl instead of sendmail (sendmail is still the default)

Version 0.5.36

remove dateutils dependancy

Version 0.5.35

remove bc dependancy

Version 0.5.34

new version check against github

Version 0.5.33

Improve finding session id

Version 0.5.32

bugfix duration time when it's bigger than 24h

Version 0.5.31

sendmail get's installed if not already done

Version 0.5.30

add sender address to sendmail command

Version 0.5.29

remove trailing slahes from target path (cifs/smb)

Version 0.5.28

added check for FST is smb - not only cifs

Version 0.5.27

bugfix latin character in mail subject, switched to 8-bit and utf8

Version 0.5.26

bugfix SENDM needs to be set

Version 0.5.23 - 0.5.25

New parameter for info-mails, you can now set when you would like to get an infomail from vee-mail

Version 0.5.22

Reintegrated background mode

Version 0.5.21

Just cosmetics

Version 0.5.20

Increased the time the script waits until veeam backup is finished

Version 0.5.19

Removed background mode from script

Version 0.5.18

Added debug messages via syslog (logger-tag: vee-mail)

Version 0.5.16 & 0.5.17

Changed the way "df" is used for free space on backup device

Version 0.5.14 & 0.5.15

Added more debugging output

Version 0.5.13

Bugfix Release - don't mount local device

Version 0.5.12

Bugfix Release

Version 0.5.11

Check for root user before execution

Version 0.5.10

First release on Github with new name "vee-mail"