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Monitor that the newest backup is less than N hours old.
by rwbhn 12y ago
Monitor that the newest backup is less than N hours old.
- caw 12y agoAlternatively, if you bother to have proper exit codes for your backup scripts, you could verify exit != 0, and alert on that. I have cron on all of my systems email STDERR to me, STDOUT is redirected to the normal logs. One you clean up your crons, you really only get email once a month or so when something breaks.
- porker 12y agoDo you use something like http://habilis.net/cronic/ http://habilis.net/cronic/ ?
- caw 12y agoNope, just instead of this 0 1 * * * backup >/var/log/foo 2>&1 I do this 0 1 * * * backup >/var/log/foo My errors are emailed to me via standard cron conventions. Normal logging is available for me if I care to look at it.