Monitor daily backup process

[MM20]

Hello,

I will make my first steps with zabbix and I have a beginner question:

I make a backup from a specific application on my linux server. This backup zip file I stored every day in a folder /media/usbstick/backup

Now I want to monitoring, that every day there is a new file with today's creation date with size>0 in the folder /media/usbstick/backup.
The access to the linux system is via SSH username/password or username/SSH key.
If there is no today backup file, a trigger should send an alarm.

How can this be done with zabbix?
Thank you!
Michael

[jbezorg]

You can use differnt ways to built that trigger. You could use the checksum of the file:

{host:vfs.file.cksum[/media/usbstick/backup].diff()}=1

or you could use the file time:

{host:vfs.file.time[/media/usbstick/backup].now(0)}-{host:vfs.file.time[/media/usbstick/backup].last(0)}>86400

where 86400 means 24 hours, so this trigger only is activated, if there is a change once a day.

[max.ch.88]

I think it is more correct to send the result code of the backup script using zabbix_sender.