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

[Ben Summers]

On 15 Sep 2004, at 17:24, Per Thomsen wrote:

> 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.

bbackupquery tests the server, not the client, as it connects directly 
to the server.

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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.

I look forward to it!

Ben