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

[Ben Summers]

On 15 Sep 2004, at 23:43, Adrian wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Why not make bbackupd call home once every 24 hours?  The actual time
> could be a config file option.  If you specify 0, it turns this feature
> off.

Yes, that's the most likely solution to the problem. I was thinking 
more of an "always connect" option. But we'll see what people actually 
want when we get the spec done.

>
> Actually, I already do this. I have cron touch a dummy file every day.
> That way bbackupd is forced to call home.  (Since my clients are all 
> used
> daily, I am not actually sure if this is working, but I set it up the 
> last
> time that this question came up, and I have not had a miss except where
> there was an actual problem.)

Was the problem anything to do with Box Backup?

>
> I also have "logwatch" set up to report the number of calls made by 
> each
> client everyday.  This has caught a lot of otherwise invisible problems
> (like the time my server's hard drive began to fail).

That's certainly something you might want to know about.

Ben