On Wednesday 22 July 2009 15:03:00 Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hello Marc,
>
> Le Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:53:20 Marc Cousin, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to log all the files backed up, on the FD side.
> >
> > I'll explain myself before anybody tells me the information is in the
> > database and bconsole :)
> >
> > I know that all the information is stored in the director. But in my
> > company, things are really compartimented, and there is a team
> > responsible for all backups, and several admin teams working on the
> > servers, doing everything but the backups.
> >
> > To get the backups done, they have to fill forms, then other forms if
> > they want to modify them, etc ... The problem being that :
> > - It's very hard to know what is really backed up after a while, if the
> > information is scattered over several forms
> > - You have to really trust the people doing backups to have implemented
> > exactly what is in these forms
> >
> > To make things worse, the director and bweb and bconsole are in a special
> > vlan where only people from the backup team can connect.
> >
> > So many admins are left in the dark on whether the backup works or not
> > (me included :) ).
> >
> > So I wanted to be able to log locally on my server what is really backed
> > up, to be able to check this periodically. And it seems I can't.
> >
> > I've tried to put
> > syslog = all
> >
> > in my Messages section on the FD. I get messages telling me that job XXX
> > has started, and all restores are logged also. But I don't get messages
> > for backed up files.
>
> Perhaps we need a Jmsg(M_SAVED) message in the save_file procedure? This
> message type already exists but isn't implemented right now.

Yes, that is exactly what is needed -- a new Jmsg(M_SAVED) and implementation 
of the M_SAVED message class.

>
> I can't tell you if it's normal or if it's waiting for a patch :)

It is not implemented because no one has asked for it until now, and it will 
generate *lots* of data so it is a bit "dangerous".

Kern

>
> > Is there a way to do it ? I understand that it is disabled by default, as
> > it would generate a lot of logs, but I really need to be able to
> > double-check the backups without filling 5 more forms :)
>
> Bye
>
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