backup (2)

Davide Airaghi

Script to monitor backup sets

When self hosting your own backup system it's not that uncommon to have some sort of monitoring system, just to make sure backups are present and exectuted according to the scheduling.

To address this topic I added to my backup hosting server a script that:
- analyze if there are files modified in a specific internal
- use "s-nail" to send email notifications in case of issues

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Davide Airaghi

Borg - server side archives compacter

If you manage backups using Borg Backup you might end up consuming a lot of space on your storage (local and/or remote), even if you have scheduled "borg prune" sessions, you are using deduplication/compression also at file system level, etc. etc. To make room for…

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