Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exit status

[David Kempe]

Jacques Botha wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am looking for a list of exit status codes for rdiff-backup
>
> i.e: I do not want to alert when a non-critical error occurred. Say a
> file changed while backing up, rdiff-backup make an alert, but
> ultimately the backup was successful, I don't want to alert. 
>
> If the backup fails because the remote machine ran out of disk space, or
> if it could not connect to remote machine in the first place, or
> something critical that prevents the backup from completing, I want to
> alert.
>
> The 0 or 1 exit status as described in the man page does not quite cater
> for this.

The rdiff-backup nagios plugin does some of the checking you might want. 
You don't need nagios to make it useful - it runs fine from the command 
line and provides exit statuses in line with the nagios plugin 
specification. IE, 0 for successful, 1 for warning, 2 for critical and 3 
for unknown. It checks the repository itself, so you would run it on the 
destination machine out of cron or something. Of course setting up 
nagios is not that difficult and probably has other benefits (ie it 
could monitor disk space at the very least).
If it doesn't do exactly what you are after, patches are warmly accepted :)

Nagios plugin here:
http://tinyurl.com/b2877

thanks

dave