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 -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/