My backup script produces quite a bit of logging detail. I keep the last 10 daily logs. And I tend to go through those daily logs every 3 or 4 days at least. Ad

My backup script produces quite a bit of logging detail. I keep the last 10 daily logs. And I tend to go through those daily logs every 3 or 4 days at least. Admittedly, that's not as good as checking daily, but it seems to work very well. That backup script has been in continuous development over the years, so I have a good idea what errors will show up and why. Then again, I tend to use those backups quite often in rebuilding my system, usually after a distro upgrade. I find a complete system rebuild usually works out better than an 'upgrade in place' so I am always aware of what is happening with the backups. Due to the daily backups, a complete system rebuild after a crash or in a distro upgrade takes at most an hour or an hour and a half. The daily backups themselves get discarded in an 'reverse exponential' fashion, giving lots of recent backups and not so many older backups.