You can set a cron job in your Linux machine, which will will mail you if any failure occurs or any detail you needed. Example, I am using this service to monitor dump copy process.
This script will take backup and after completion notify me on my mail.
#!/bin/bash
date=`date -d '1 hour ago' "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`
#/usr/bin/svnadmin dump /abc/xyz/ > /home/server1/backup/dump_$date.dump
/usr/bin/svnadmin dump /abc/xyz/ > /root/svn/dump_$date.dump
mail -s "SVN DUMP" abc@xyz.com < /opt/body.txt
Here, the body.txt file will contain the mail body.
cron will execute this file as below:
1 1 * * * sh dump.sh
This may help.