agreed. an off-topic section should be on the wiki though it should be
limited to some basic backup related stuff. i think it is more important
to know the available disk space on a backup server than most any other. it
is also more likely to be used up!
will add to wiki.
On 10/11/07, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Peter Kuennemann wrote:
>
> > dan wrote:
> >> put this basic script in your cron to run once daily
> >>
> >> df -h|grep /thedirectory|awk '{print $5" used on the "$6"
> >> mountpoint, "$4" available"}'|mail youusernamei get this output
> >> mailed to me
> >>
> > Hey, that's great :-) ... it's going into crontab right away!
>
> Don't you have something like logwatch on your system? RedHat/Fedora/
> CentOS has logwatch by default and I believe Debian has a similar
> package (forgot the name). logwatch tells you about diskspace,
> amongst other problems or unusual things it finds on your system.
>
> I recommend going even further and implementing a proper monitoring
> solution (munin is pretty nice and very easy to setup, though Nagios/
> ZABBIX/ZenOSS is even more flexible).
>
> >> 38% used on the /shared mountpoint, 174G available
> >>
> >>
> >> its simple but effective. this is an old version, i have since moved
> >> to a more complex script to only mail me over 80%
> >>
> >> i will put this on the wiki
> >> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
> > You guy's are really responsive, thanks a lot.
> > Btw. I like the idea of a backuppc wiki very much !
>
> I don't really know if I like the idea of these general sysadmin
> issues on the BackupPC-specific wiki. Maybe, if there was a page/
> section clearly marked as such, but I surely hope people are not
> going to add everything they know/learn about system administration
> on the BackupPC wiki. Let's try and keep it on topic. Of course it is
> important to know when your BackupPC array runs out of space, but
> this is true for every partition/system, so it doesn't have a lot to
> do with BackupPC in my opinion.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
>
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