Re: {bb} fbackup ext script

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:10, John Thrumston wrote:
> I was looking on deadcat for a backup monitoring script. I didn't see
> anything that I could use with fbackup fairly easily. Has anyone out
> there put together something that looks at HP's fbackup's?

I don't know of anything specific and I don't know that particular
utility, but here are a few general options.

If it is the type of utility that runs as a daemon, it will normally
log anything interesting. You may find it's sufficient to monitor
that log using the normal client test or an external test based on
it.

If, OTOH, it's of the type that is run from "cron" when needed, it
might have a configuration option to run specified scripts before
and after. Even if this is not the case, you should be able to
wrap it in a script which will have the same effect.

To start with, you can create a "flag" file before the backup runs
and remove it after successful completion. Then you can use a file
checking extension (either from deadcat or of your own design) that
will alert you if the "flag" file exists and is older than the
time normally taken for the backup to run. If appropriate, you
can then move to something more informative, like saving verbose
output from the backup command to a file and parsing it.

Cheers, Phil.



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