action #134519
Updated by livdywan 9 months ago
## Motivation We did not notice e.g. through alerts that backups were not being updated since July 26. See #134489 ## Acceptance criteria * **AC1**: Alerts are received when backup jobs fail ## Suggestions * ~cron.service cron.service was failing~ The cron job was failing, but we were never notified about it. The systemd service doesn't fail because of individual jobs. * Use a systemd timer which would give us systemd services alert failures ## Out of scope * Try and see a simple check for the existence of recent backups ``` % journalctl -u cron.service Aug 20 12:00:01 backup-vm rsnapshot[15218]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha: ERROR: Errors were found in /etc/rsnapshot.conf, rsnapshot can not continue. ```