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

[Per Thomsen]

On 9/15/04 8:48 AM, Ben Summers wrote:

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> Nagios looks interesting. How would the plugin work? Attempt to make a 
> connection to the server and check that the client has scanned the 
> files recently (timestamp of /var/bbackupd/last_sync_finish), or just 
> read the PID file and see if that process is active?

Yes, I was thinking that the plugin would do a bbackupquery and parse 
the output, to make sure that the process was functioning, and then 
check the timestamp as well, to make sure nothing is hung.

> [snip]
>
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>> My time is limited, but I'd love to get the ball rolling. I should be 
>> able to pull something together by early next week. Any preferred 
>> formats?
>
>
> That would be great. Plain text would be a good format, nice and easy 
> to read and discuss on mailing lists.

OK. I'll post a first draft on the list sometime next week.

Thanks,
Per

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