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

[boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk]

I use a script to watch the logs, it's written in Perl, you are welcome to
it.

Rick

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Per Thomsen wrote:

> 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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