Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day
by dspillett on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:58PM
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> This is sensible, but one problem with this is developing "blindness" for messages you receive every day.
This can be an issue, I do get lazy about checking them when I'm busy.
The next step will be to automate checking them a bit more, rather than stopping the positive messages. A simple script that for the mail example logs in via POP/IMAP, checks for the last notification and checks the relevant timestamps. Similar for other services (is the last commit in the repo from more than 24 hours ago?). Then I get a simple "all OK" or not. I still have to run the script, perhaps hooking it to CGI and setting it to my browser home page to further remove my laziness from the equation, but I don't want to just be told when something is wrong as I'll never really trust that something going wrong won't block warning messages - I want to make checking as easy as possible though.
I may play with your service and add it as a secondary set of checks though!
This can be an issue, I do get lazy about checking them when I'm busy.
The next step will be to automate checking them a bit more, rather than stopping the positive messages. A simple script that for the mail example logs in via POP/IMAP, checks for the last notification and checks the relevant timestamps. Similar for other services (is the last commit in the repo from more than 24 hours ago?). Then I get a simple "all OK" or not. I still have to run the script, perhaps hooking it to CGI and setting it to my browser home page to further remove my laziness from the equation, but I don't want to just be told when something is wrong as I'll never really trust that something going wrong won't block warning messages - I want to make checking as easy as possible though.
I may play with your service and add it as a secondary set of checks though!