[hobbit] monitor a series of files for absolute size (alert & trending)

[Ralph Mitchell]

On 8/3/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> greetings,
>
>  I need to monitor some os and db backup files for their sizes for alert
> based on absolute sizes as well as rrd trending. Does Hobbit do this now? I
> am running 4.2-RC-20060712 on CentOS 4.3/i386.
>
>  A twist is the file names are timestamped
> (os-backup-YYYYMMDD-HHmm.star.gz).  any suggestions/tricks? I thought of
> making a copy to a fixed name for monitoring, but it is kinda expensive due
> to the size of the backups themselves.

Why not make a hardlink to each file and change it at midnight with a
cron entry??  That gives you the fixed names without the overhead of
copying the files.

Ralph Mitchell