Re:BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers ...
by Helmut10001 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:00AM
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I recently set up email alerting through the syslog agent from Telegraf-Influx-Grafana, where Grafana is used for Email alerting and InfluxDB for filtering for the specific syslogs.
On another VM, I used postfix to email logs after cronjob (failed or passed), which also works great.
Re:BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers ...
by amjd on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:50AM
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I use ntfy.sh for sending push notifications from scripts and such. It's open source and free (they have paid plans as well now, but I didn't encounter any limitations in the free plan).
Not an endorsement, just a happy user.
Personally I automate restore testing with cron. I have a script that picks two random files from the filesystem: an old one (which should be in long term storage) and a new one (should be in the most recent backup run, more or less), and tries restoring them both and comparing md5sums to the live file. I like this for two reasons: 1. it's easy to alert when a cronjob fails, and 2. I always have a handy working snippet for restoring from backups when I inevitably forget how to use the tooling.
IMO alerting is the trickiest part of the whole setup. I've never really gotten that down on my own.