[BlackPearl02]

That's a clever approach! I used to do something similar, but found I'd miss emails or they'd get buried.

The tool I built does something similar but automated - it watches for a ping after your job completes and can validate the results (file sizes, timestamps, counts, etc.). You set validation rules once, and it only alerts when something's actually wrong. No need to read through daily emails.

For your backup example, you'd ping it with the file size, and it alerts if the size is unexpectedly small or zero. Same idea, just automated.