BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-16 09:09:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:08:04 -0500
Chris Bennett wrote:
>> That usually means you have less than 5% of disk space on the pool
>> filesystem - or whatever you configured the threshold to be to stop
>> running automatically.
> 
> Maybe an email once a day to the admin that this threshold has been
> reached, and that backups are no longer being scheduled, could be
> implemented?
> 
> Nagios/whatever _should_ be used to let you know that:
> - disk space is almost full
> - backups are > some age
> 
> But it won't tell you why BackupPC has stopped doing backups - and the
> less experienced admin won't immediately know it's because a disk
> space threshold has been reached.

The 'host summary' web page shows everything at a glance.  Look at it once in a 
while if you care what is happening.  And the system will send email after a 
configurable number of days without backups on a target.  Configure what you 
want there.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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