Monitor Backups - Last backup for VM

KPS

Hi!

I want to do some external monitoring to see, if e.g. VMs are not backuped within the last 24h.

Did anyone of you write an API-script to get something like:
Timestamp-Of-Last-Backup;VM-Name

Thank you and best wishes

olivierlambert

Hi,

Do you already have a monitoring solution? If not, then let me ask internally, I think we've been asked that in the past

olivierlambert

Adding @julien-f in the loop

KPS

@olivierlambert
We are using PRTG as monitoring system. Our "old" backup-system is connected through the API to:

List VMs that do not have the "nobackup-flag"
Check if backup with age <24h is available
Check if offsite-backup with age <48h is available

--> Sends number of VMs with and without backups as XML-output

julien-f

@KPS Have you checked our Nagios plugin?

It got some major improvements last release (cf 5.77 blogpost).

olivierlambert

If I get it correctly, @KPS doesn't use Nagios

miller1

You can use Vinchin Backup & Recovery to monitor VM backup job in real time. There is a graphical interface presenting the status of the whole backup system.

KPS

@miller1
Vinchin is looking great at the first look and offers some great features like LAN-free-backup, that can be A LOT faster, than the "classical" approach and Instant-Recover.

But in other points it is VERY limited and IMHO not enterprise-ready:

No smart-backups! You have to define manually which VM is backed up in which job - not by Tag, name, state, etc.
Absolutely NO API, no Syslog, no real reporting - only basic mail notifications

olivierlambert

@julien-f what alternative do we have (even CLI) to get what @KPS is asking?

olivierlambert

@miller1 Just first post to talk specifically about Vinchin This looks a bit spammy. If you want to promote it, it would be better to be more transparent

julien-f

@olivierlambert

> xo-cli --list-commands backupNg.getLogs
backupNg.getLogs [after=<number|string>] [before=<number|string>] [limit=<number>] *=<unknown type>

olivierlambert

I suppose that answer your requirement @KPS ?

KPS

@olivierlambert
I will try to build something with that base. The problem is, that I first need a list of the VMs to check for every VM the logs about the last successful backup.

julien-f

@KPS You can use xo-cli --list-objects type=VM.

Also you should only get the backup logs once and join with the VM list, because backupNg.getLogs is heavy.