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    Couple of ideas. Your cron job that runs the backup can email upon success and/or failure. You could set a cron job on the NAS that looks at the backup file tree and emails if it does not see anything newer than n days old (find /backups/ -mtime [...] || echo "" | mail -s "no backups on $(date)" [email protected]) Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 16:19
  • In principle a nice idea and exactly what I asked for. Didn't know about the mtime switch. However, executing the command takes ages when I search the whole backup directory. Maybe it suffices if I just look at the change time in certain folders like /var/tmp. Anyway, I will have a look into that. Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 17:48