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| ====== Monitoring Backup Storage ====== | ====== Monitoring Backup Storage ====== | ||
| - | It is important to keep an eye on your backup storage so that what you backup is restorable. Typically, monitoring your storage will consist of two or more important aspects. The first is connecting the storage to your computer in such a way that it going to remain reliable. The second is monitoring the storage regularly to ensure it is working as expected. | + | It is important to keep an eye on your backup storage so that what you backup is restorable. Typically monitoring of your storage will consist of two or more important aspects. The first and probably the most important aspect is connecting and maintaining the storage to your computer in such a way that it going to remain reliable, this is going to include keeping the humidity, temperature and power stable for your storage system(s). The second aspect is monitoring the storage regularly to ensure it is working as expected. Beyond performing restores; this is going to include checking the file systems and scrubbing the drives. |
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| + | You should note that some file systems, storage devices, the rsync checksum options, operating systems and even custom LBackup scripts offer checksum systems which are able to aid you in detecting issues with your backup storage systems. | ||
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| Lucid offers an open source wrapper script to diskutil (Mac OS X only) called [[http://www.lucidsystems.tk/tools/volume-check|volume-check]]. This tool is able to be scheduled to run and check your DAS (directly attached storage) volumes for file system errors. If you add a wrapper script to volume-check then it is quick to setup a scheduled report regarding the state of your DAS (directly attached storage) systems. | Lucid offers an open source wrapper script to diskutil (Mac OS X only) called [[http://www.lucidsystems.tk/tools/volume-check|volume-check]]. This tool is able to be scheduled to run and check your DAS (directly attached storage) volumes for file system errors. If you add a wrapper script to volume-check then it is quick to setup a scheduled report regarding the state of your DAS (directly attached storage) systems. | ||
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| For your convenience, an example volume-check wrapper script which uses [[http://www.lucidsystems.tk/tools/send-email|SendEmail]] is included below for quick reference. If you decide to use this example script, it will need to be modified to meet your requirements. | For your convenience, an example volume-check wrapper script which uses [[http://www.lucidsystems.tk/tools/send-email|SendEmail]] is included below for quick reference. If you decide to use this example script, it will need to be modified to meet your requirements. | ||
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