In case you want cron to tell you that your backup job has been finished you can use MSMTP to send you the logs for your cronjob via e-mail: After install with apt-get install mstmp, setup aliases in your /etc/aliases file: Then make sure your config in /etc/msmtprc looks something like this: Then you are ready to test: To make the finished cron job send the mail add something like the following to your /etc/crontab or crontab -e
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