Yeah, I’m aware of Zabbix. I don’t bother monitoring any more. I just write policies for Monit re: CPU, RAM, I/O, hosts, etc. checks & fail/restart states for services/daemon groups. Like Kopia’s actions are suppose to provide, Monit can also pass the results of conditions to/from external programs (eg: a shell script) if I really need to. I’ll check the logs while waiting for the coffee.
In the case of Kopia, I find I really do need to automate intervention… just in case.
Well, I’m a full Linux env so I can’t give you any insight re: Windows beyond that I loath Powershell (never again!) but more to your concern is that Kopia does seem to heavily rely on POSIX-based file systems. IDK how compliant NTFS is there.
Reading over the docs & scattered posts on this board, you can manually test consistency on demand. I’m also going to use its ECC before automating weekly tests.
Agreed. The cryptography & modern checksumming algos attracted me but it’s Kopia’s actions that’s really the only thing keeping me from walking away. Being able to pass pre and post conditions to jobs very much fits in with my ideal requirements.
To the former there’s also this:
That’s about 744 km (462 mi) ‘as the crow flies.’
Nice. I’ve been doing something similar since it was ATDT & not HTTP. I’d be incredibly hesitant to putting this into production without taking addn’l steps. As related ITT I’m also speaking of the fact endpoint credentials are stored in cleartext regardless of the OS. That may not be as much of a concern if FDE is in use but FDE doesn’t protect against malware siphoning/RATs.
I’m accounting for this ATM by ensuring the remote endpoint is isolated to its own container (chroot, technically), storage pool strictly for repo storage. Clients will have a private certificate authority installed to help control TLS access. Said endpoint is to be mirrored offsite.
Then there’s the default logging to debug annoyance to address:
I’d speculate the average SOHO user could get themselves into trouble quicker if it were.
But is it? Backing up isn’t exactly a frontier in IT, even SOHO, regardless the monetary aspect. What’s being asked to be put up/at stake can easily be consider priceless, situation dependent of course. Otherwise why bother backing up at all?
I do: