[Box Backup] Checking that bbackupd's are backing up?

[Per Thomsen]

I would like to build in some centralized tracking of all my clients, to 
make sure that they are running, and backing things up. This would allow 
me to hunt down any clients that were shut down, or failed to restart 
after a reboot...

Rather than distributing software to all clients, I would like to be 
able to do this on the bbstored server. I've been thinking along the 
lines of log-parsing, but then I looked at the output of 
'bbstoreaccounts info'. The first 10 digits of the 'Client Store Marker' 
looks remarkably like a time(2) return value. Would it be safe to assume 
that the time stamp denotes the last time a file was uploaded from the 
client?

If so, this would be a good (IMO) way to check that a client has backed 
*something* up in the last x seconds, and warning me if not.

If people have other (and better) ways of doing this, I'd love to hear 
about them.

Thanks,
Per

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