On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM G.W. Haywood <bac...@jubileegroup.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> The first is that investigation can be started relatively painlessly.
> If you look around line 1760 in .../bin/BackupPC you should find sub
> HostSortCompare. Here are the comments at its head:
>
Thanks for the pointers. I'll hold on to this in case I have time to dig
more deeply into what was going on (or if I have occasion to run into this
again).
>
> If you don't have the time either, then maybe raise an issue on Github
> (WHAT AM I SAYING????) and put a link to this thread in there.
>
>
I had decided there was no value in doing that until I saw the email that
development was being picked up again. :) Now it seems like opening an
issue might actually be useful.
> > 4) Enable monitoring so that hosts with backups that are too old are
> > notified so that you can resolve the issue, instead of finding out later
> > after some potential failure
> > ...
>
> +1
>
> In my config.pl I've changed $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} from the
> default of 7 days to 1.2. I'm thinking about increasing it to 1.5. :)
> This notification system does work. I have several hosts which don't
> get switched on very often and I get almost daily emails about them.
>
> But it sounds like this notification didn't happen for Mr. Pounsett
> even though the host was not backed up for two weeks, is that right?
> If so, this needs attention.
>
I did get the email notification after about a week... I don't remember the
precise timing now, but if that turned up on a weekend I'd likely not have
noticed it for a few days either. After that I spent a few days watching
it to try to figure out why it wasn't getting backed up, and then started
scheduling backups by hand.
Changing the notification threshold is probably a good choice, but what I'm
more interested in doing is setting up something to interpret
BackupPC_serverMesg output so that I can get backup status into my actual
monitoring system.
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