Comment on Backups of Backups
un_ax@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I’d recommend using a job monitoring service that will alerts you if it doesn’t get a check in. It’s very useful if your backups fail silently or hang mid-job for some reason.
I use healthchecks.io since it has a free tier and it works well.
northernlights@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Or setting proper mail support on everything so you get an email with full output whenever something fails. Ubuntu’s postfix doc is really good.
un_ax@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
That works but there are times where a machine/service dies completely or hangs mid-process for a couple of days. You can account for a lot of those cases, but having a separate system that just looks for success rather than monitoring for failure works betters in my experience.
Or if you just want notifications, ntfy is really nice and selfhostable.