Daily/weekly reports
- Thread starter scherefe
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When using Sync Jobs PBS should automatically send you a mail after a sync job completed whether it was succesful or not. It includes a link to the overview of the datastore, but no details. You can check the details of the Sync Job in the respective task log afterwards.
You can find some more information in the PBS docs [1]
[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/maintenance.html#notifications
You can find some more information in the PBS docs [1]
[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/maintenance.html#notifications
It is not the same. You have e-mail for every (of some type) job. Possible many e-mails.
When you backup from PVE, you have summary. But separated by jobs and even by nodes. Many e-mails.
If you backup some systems by filesystem agent (proxmox-backup-client) you don't have e-mail notify (maybe from custom script). Missing info.
What we really need is daily (and possible weekly) report:
- job summary
-- per job types (backup, restore, verify, ...)
-- per backup types (VM, FS) + data transfer/increment
-- per status (ok/failed)
- actual datastore usage
Some informations are in dashboard, but not all. And summary tables are 30 days only.
When you backup from PVE, you have summary. But separated by jobs and even by nodes. Many e-mails.
If you backup some systems by filesystem agent (proxmox-backup-client) you don't have e-mail notify (maybe from custom script). Missing info.
What we really need is daily (and possible weekly) report:
- job summary
-- per job types (backup, restore, verify, ...)
-- per backup types (VM, FS) + data transfer/increment
-- per status (ok/failed)
- actual datastore usage
Some informations are in dashboard, but not all. And summary tables are 30 days only.
Have you tried filtering them so that you only inspect mails that have errors/warnings in them? Everything else is just noise and will reduce the number of mails you have to look at to almost zero.
Most of the report wishlist can be done with monitoring and alerting, but not all of them. Restore is not part of PBS (or at least not what I understand as restore test), the data transfer and increment would be nice, yet is also not that easy.
Therefore you monitor your PBS with an external monitoring software. We have proper alerting for e.g. not running successfully backup job for 8 hours, datastore getting full. The size increment is on our internal wishlist and we did not have anything working up to this moment. This may boil down to read the metadata and compure for ourselves.