On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:22:00AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> OK, so the question becomes, how do I monitor for general backup
> queue problems?  I've had situations where something gets stuck,
> like a nightly job, and the queue gets backed up, and I want to
> detect that.
> 
> I guess if I could get access to the backup age that's on the host
> summary, from a script, that would do.

Got it; short version below, remind me to post after the real script
is done:

for num in $(sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg status hosts | sed 
's/},[{"]/\n/g' | grep lastGoodBackupTime | sed 's/.*"lastGoodBackupTime" => 
"//' | sed 's/".*//' )
do
  if [ $[$(date +%s) - $num] -gt 77760 ]
  then
    echo "needs backup"
  fi
done

-Robin

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