From a99ff50052a9c693c998e985ec526947e489141f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Schmidt <alex@treefish.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:06:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] implemented verbose output after error encounter

---
 backmeupscotty | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backmeupscotty b/backmeupscotty
index 152cf86..80392a3 100644
--- a/backmeupscotty
+++ b/backmeupscotty
@@ -6,18 +6,28 @@ ARCHIVE_KEEPNBACKUPS=30
 ARCHIVE_KEEPNDAYS=30
 BACKUP_RUNEVERYNTHDAY=1
 
+_ERROR_ENCOUNTERED=0
 _UPPERME=$(echo $(basename $0) | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
 
 function timestamp {
     date +"[%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]"
 }
 
+function scottyline {
+    echo $(timestamp) $_UPPERME: $@
+}
+
 function scottyinfo {
-    echo $(timestamp) $_UPPERME: $@ 
+    if ($_ERROR_ENCOUNTERED -eq 0); then
+	scottyline $@
+    else
+	scottyline $@ >&2
+    fi
 }
 
 function scottyerror {
-    echo $(timestamp) $_UPPERME: $@ >&2 
+    scottyline $@ >&2
+    _ERROR_ENCOUNTERED=1
 }
 
 function ssh255 {
@@ -112,6 +122,8 @@ function scottysync {
 	scottyinfo "Timestamping completed backup and linking to current backup."
 	ssh255 $REMOTE_HOST \
 	    "mv $dir_incomplete $dir_timestamped && rm -f $dir_current && ln -s $(basename $dir_timestamped) $dir_current"
+    else
+	scottyerror "Rsync failed."
     fi
 
     while [ $(grepbackups | wc -l) -gt $ARCHIVE_KEEPNBACKUPS ]; do
-- 
2.39.5