[Box Backup] Backup Stats ?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Matt,

> I am currently running Box Backup 0.10 (Chris Merge 1794) for a handful 
> of clients in place of an Rsync script - clients however were used to 
> the verbose output to show what files were backed up and the rsync 
> summary at the end of the batch was also semi-informative...
>
> Is there likely to be a similar feature for Box ? I did grab the 
> bbclientstatus.pl script along with the box::config perl mod which can 
> email the last backup etc of a client which is great for me to see the 
> status of the clients, and poke this data at Nagios, however I think 
> what the clients would love to see is something along the lines of:
>
> 1. Did it backup last night ?
> 2. What size was the backup.
> 3. Any errors ?
> 4. Space left on store/used.

The Box Backup client can now log a lot of this information, if you turn 
on the LogAllFileAccess option and run it in verbose mode (sufficiently 
high -v level, or -V for maximum). You could grep it out of your syslogs 
(with timestamps for everything) and report it, or I can provide a way to 
write the logs to a file instead.

You will see it connect/disconnect (so you know that it backed up), a list 
of files processed, ignored due to not being modified, backed up 
successfully, or failed to back up. As far as I know, no existing scripts 
have been modified to process and report on this new verbose data.

You can get the space left on store at any time with bbackupquery.

> Keep up the fantastic work on this project, I am a great fan and of 
> course as always I am happy to test or assist if need be :-)

Thanks, it's highly appreciated!

Cheers, Chris.
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