Re: [Devel] Re: Backup-project.

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[Ottar Kvindesland]
> Desirable Features
> --------------------------
> It is desirable that the backup is managed through the WebMin
> interface. Such a module should
> 
> - Define all files and directories to be backed up at each server
> - Define  off-site or on-site machines where backup should be stored on daily, 
> weekly and monthly basis
> - Check the quality of back up files (monitor file sizes, numbers, 
> successful/failed logins, disk full, disk bust etc)
> - Define mail, SMS recepients in case of troble and errors
> - Maintain logs
> - Define backup frequencies and times
> - Provide browser facilities to retrieve files from backup
> - Restore data
> - Define syslog monitoring and alarm policies

I agree that these are useful features, but believe the monitoring
part should be integrated with the rest of the monitoring system
currently being worked on by Ragnar Wisløff.  He is working on Nagios
for monitoring.