Good morning,
I am a seasoned LAMP admin, preferring CentOS (or Fedora).
I suppose that on the server
- the mail service is properly configured, and we can send out mail via the bash command
- cron is installed and working properly
- we will use bash scripts for all tasks
Furthermore, I'd suggest to
- split both tasks into two sub tasks: monitoring and weekly report. This would save some programming and unnecessary bug sources
- provide me some information how the backup is done (ex.: tar/gz?) and how we can test for failure and generate weekly report (ex.: there are any logs we can evaluate, etc.)
Would be pleased to do this project for you.
BR,
Uwe Daufenbach