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> picks up the latest backup from the offsite-online backups and restores it, sending me a copy of the last message received according to the data in that backu
by cuu508 10y ago
> picks up the latest backup from the offsite-online backups and restores it, sending me a copy of the last message received according to the data in that backup.
This is sensible, but one problem with this is developing "blindness" for messages you receive every day. For some recurring tasks you can automate a bit further. Instead of receiving a success message every day, receive a failure message the first day there's an absence of success message. A number of tools and services exist for setting this up, one is linked in my HN profile (shameless plug ;-)
- dspillett 10y ago> This is sensible, but one problem with this is developing "blindness" for messages you receive every day. This can be an issue, I do get lazy about checking them when I'm busy. The next step will be to automate checking them a bit more, rather than stopping the positive messages. A simple script that for the mail example logs in via POP/IMAP, checks for the last notification and checks the relevant timestamps. Similar for other services (is the last commit in the repo from more than 24 hours ago?). Then I get a simple "all OK" or not. I still have to run the script, perhaps hooking it to CGI and setting it to my browser home page to further remove my laziness from the equation, but I don't want to just be told when something is wrong as I'll never really trust that something going wrong won't block warning messages - I want to make checking as easy as possible though. I may play with your service and add it as a secondary set of checks though!