[Box Backup] Checking that bbackupd's are backing up?

Adrian boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Sep 16 14:31:15 BST 2004


>>
>> Actually, I already do this. I have cron touch a dummy file every day.
>> That way bbackupd is forced to call home.  (Since my clients are all
>> used
>> daily, I am not actually sure if this is working, but I set it up the
>> last
>> time that this question came up, and I have not had a miss except where
>> there was an actual problem.)
>
> Was the problem anything to do with Box Backup?
>

Hard to say, I have not had any repeatable problems, but I have had
bbackupd simply quit and I have had it go to 100% CPU usage and stay
there?  (This is mostly on Windows boxes running under cygwin.)

Adrian




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