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

[Ben Summers]

On 16 Sep 2004, at 14:31, Adrian wrote:

>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>
> Hard to say, I have not had any repeatable problems, but I have had
> bbackupd simply quit and I have had it go to 100% CPU usage and stay
> there?  (This is mostly on Windows boxes running under cygwin.)

I'm guessing that's a cygwin issue. I've never seen that on a UNIX box.

Let's hope we can get a Win32 client sometime soon!

Ben