Backups and recovery · 9 min read
Monitoring backups so that silence never means success
Set up dead-man's-switch pings, exit-code handling, snapshot age checks and failure alerts for a restic backup, so a job that stops running gets noticed.
Posts tagged “cron”
2 articles about cron.
VPS operations · 9 min read
Monitor one VPS without Prometheus, Grafana or a stack
Cron, curl and systemd are enough to catch a down app, a filling disk, low memory, an expiring certificate and a silent backup. Working scripts included.