Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-17 Thread Stern, Falk
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially, what I'm looking for (or may be writing) is a little script (Python maybe?) that will find all jobs that should have been run this calendar day (I guess by parsing the director config file, since it's not stored in the database) and then check the

[Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Jason Antman
My Bacula installation is progressing well. I was wondering - I know that Bacula can send email messages at the termination of a job, and can do this based on status of the job. However, what about if a job (or Bacula as a whole) isn't running? Does anyone have a script that can check all jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Short
To make sure a job ran, simply mash up a bash script (or php/python) and run an sql query for all jobs that started on a certain day. Then you could compile this in a single readable e-mail. Then add an admin job which runs the script at a specified time every day (preferably after your backups,

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.10.2007 20:32,, Ryan Novosielski wrote:: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is also a Nagios plugin for Bacula. And to monitor if your jobs actually ran, use a Run After Job script to send passive check results to Nagios. The passive check should use freshness

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Jason Antman
Thanks to all for the advice. I hadn't even thought of the Nagios passive check option. That sounds best for me - I'll look into it tomorrow. I haven't done anything with passive checks and freshness checking, but luckily I picked up the Nagios book - something good for bedtime reading... As to