[Box Backup] Script to look for clients that fail to log in

[boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk]

No I wasn't aware of that actually, thanks for the heads up.

I usually use a cron job that updates a list of installed packages every
night, so it would normally be dialing in, but I could have been
needlessly frustrated without that information...

Couldn't we also just use the bbackupctl command to force a sync?

Rick

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Ben Summers wrote:

>
> On 2 Jun 2004, at 05:37, rprice@freeshell.org wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just created a script that will watch the syslogs and complain if a
> > backup client does not call in within a predetermined time.
> >
> > Actually, it will look for any patterned dropouts in any given syslog
> > file, but the above is it's primary purpose for me right now.
>
> You are aware that is bbackupd does not find any changes in the file
> system, it won't bother to connect to the server?
>
> If you want to ensure that bbackupd does connect on every sync, setup a
> cron job to touch a directory. (not a file, otherwise you'll get
> unnecessary uploads of data)
>
> Ben
>
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