On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote:
>>
>> The issue is, imo anyway, misbehaving software.
>> Have a UPS and working on connecting the much larger one that I also have.
>> What are you recommending for backup? I have an early model blu-ray writer
>> and even 25GB of storage doesn't go very far!
>> Drives are on Raid-10.
>> External notification would be nice but I don't want even more 'noises
>> in the night'
>> so that won't likely be happening.
>> May just reset this some time but I don't reboot the server often so it may have
>> to wait for a bit.
>>
>
> You should be able to catch misbehaving software with syslog, messages and
> dmesg.
>
> I use "nut" to monitor UPSs and it has pretty good support for most things that
> come out in the market.

Not a tool I've used yet
>
> I am an advocate of both passive and active backups. Active backups can be
> easy for small-time servers, like your own. You an even attach a drive to it,
> use an encrypted container on it (or not), and mount it to do backups. But the
> way most serious people od it is with "snapshots". There must be tools that
> you can find to do it at zero cost.

Haven't set it up yet but have been looking into backuppc - - - seems
to do a good
job of backup as far as I understand it.
Very good point though!!

Regards

Dee