> I agree there hasn't been a way to be sure BackupPC is running ok.
>
> In BackupPC 3.0.0beta there is a new option to BackupPC_sendEmail:
>
> -c check if BackupPC is alive and send an email if not
>
> That allows you to run BackupPC_sendEmail -c from cron and
> it will send an email to $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} if it
> can't contact the BackupPC server.
another technic to monitor BackupPC is to use Nagios (with nrpe)
for interested peoples, here is a plugin to check BackupPC
with the "buildin" command : "BackupPC_serverMesg status info"
regards
jmb
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#! /usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use vars qw($opt_V $opt_h $opt_w $opt_c $opt_H $opt_C $PROGNAME $status);
use lib "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins" ;
use utils qw(%ERRORS &print_revision &support &usage);
$PROGNAME = "check_BackupPC";
sub print_help ();
sub print_usage ();
$ENV{'PATH'}='';
$ENV{'BASH_ENV'}='';
$ENV{'ENV'}='';
Getopt::Long::Configure('bundling');
GetOptions
("V" => \$opt_V, "version" => \$opt_V,
"c" => \$opt_c, "command" => \$opt_c,
"h" => \$opt_h, "help" => \$opt_h);
if ($opt_V) {
print_revision($PROGNAME,'$Revision: 1.0 $');
exit $ERRORS{'OK'};
}
if ($opt_h) {print_help(); exit $ERRORS{'OK'};}
my $status=0;
my $sig='';
$sig=`/usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info`;
if ( $sig =~ /^Got reply: %Info = /) {
$status = 1;
} else {
$status = 0;
}
if ($status == 1) {
print "Status : BackupPC running...\n";
}
if ($status == 0) {
print "Status : BackupPC is stopped !!\n";
}
exit $ERRORS{'CRITICAL'} if ($status == 0);
exit $ERRORS{'OK'};
sub print_usage () {
print "Usage: $PROGNAME -H <host> -c <command>\n";
}
sub print_help () {
print_revision($PROGNAME,'$Revision: 1.0 $');
print "Copyright (c) 2005 J-M Beuken
This plugin reports the status of the BackupPC process
";
print_usage();
print "
-H, --hostname=HOST
Name or IP address of host to check
-c, --command=command
Command 'BackupPC_serverMesg status info'
";
support();
}
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