[Box Backup] ML Archive / blocking sync

[Volker Wegert]

Ben Summers <ben at fluffy.co.uk> writes:

> On 16 Oct 2009, at 12:00, boxbackup-request at boxbackup.org wrote:
>>
>> Ben Summers <ben at fluffy.co.uk> writes:
>>> On 15 Oct 2009, at 12:00, boxbackup-request at boxbackup.org wrote:
>>>>> And one more issue - I've scripted a small nagios check plug-in  that
>>>>> checks the current rsync target and reminds the users to put their
>>>>> laptops into maintenance mode if they haven't done so for a certain
>>>>> period. To convert this, I'd need some way to find out when the  last
>>>>> sync for a certain client was performed on the server side. Is  there
>>>>> another way to do this than parsing the server log file?
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately not at the moment, sorry.
>>>
>>> Incorrect - a file is touched in the configured data directory,  check
>>> it's
>>> timestamp for the end of the last backup run.
>>
>> On the server?
> 
> No, the client.

OK - but then I'll have to move the check logic to the clients and will loose
the "central monitoring aspect" (won't be able to keep an eye on the backup
status myself).

>> Is that from raidfile.conf DirN/backup/$accountid/info.rfw?
> That file will be updated if anything is uploaded to that account.

Should be good enough for my purposes - I'll try to use this.

Thanks
  Volker

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