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sawe
sawe

Reputation: 11

Bash script to monitor new created directories

Anyone to give pointers or ideas.

I have a server, that is running rsync and backs up other servers to itself on different folders creating new folders by date everyday e.g(2017-03-20). i want to create a bash script that will check if these backups have run, by checking the created folders and then if all backups were successfully the script will confirm by writing a text file in another folder /Z, the text file with format 20-17-03-20. If any of the backups fail the script should just exit and not create the file.

The whole point is, i will then do a nagios plugin script to be checking this text file daily and sending results to Nagios daily.

Any ideas will be most welcome.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 634

Answers (1)

Ashish K
Ashish K

Reputation: 935

First add the epel repo - 

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Then install the inotify-tools -

sudo yum install inotify-tools

Write a script running and indefinite loop monitoring the specific directory (where you expect the backup script to generate directory).

#!/bin/sh

while true
do 

inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete /<directory> && /bin/sh <script_confirming _backup>

done

The -e flag check for mentioned events. You can add up events as per your monitoring requirement. The -r flag will look for all the directories and sub-directories under the mentioned directory recursively.

Upvotes: 2

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