I use Bacula for my backups. Most of my backups are done to disk, then copied to tape. I have long liked the idea of having multiple backups on different media. On a regular basis, I move the FULL backup tapes to an offsite location. This is standard practice and highly recommended if you can […]
Adding Nagios checks for tape drives / libraries Read More »
Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job: 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens” 24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating. That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much.
ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice Read More »
After rebooting kraken to take a photo, I found nagios was displaying an error for my smartmon checks: NRPE: Unable to read output. Running the command by hand on the nagios server, I found: $ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe2 -H kraken -c check_smartmon_ad24 NRPE: Unable to read output But from the remote server I got: # /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_smartmon -d
NRPE: Unable to read output Read More »