Watchdog for restic backup that are automatic triggered via an interval
**TLDR:** Bash script that emails you if your restic backup interval is overdue.
## How does it work?
The script monitors the backend of a restic backup. The bash script is executed via cronjob or a systemd-timer periodically. The user sets an interval for eachrestic repo (e.g. your laptop-backup). This is the same interval as the one that triggers the automatic backup from your device. If your automatic backup failed (e.g. no Internet), there will be no changes in den repo. The script will notice that and emails you.
## Features
* runs just with bash
* no restic authentication needed
* multiple repos
* individual interval for each repo
* custom email server via [ssmtp](https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP)
## Planned Features
* Able to determine a failed restic repo task from a successful task
timestampFolder="index" #folder for reading timestamp
backupFolder="./backups" #directory that contains all repos
...
receiverEmail="mailuser@maildomain.tld"
senderEmail="mailuser@maildomain.tld"
senderName="AutoBackup Watchdog"
```
7. edit repo settings in check_AutoBackup.sh
```
repos_name[0]=" first backup repo"
repos_directory[0]="first_repo"
repos_interval[0]=21600 #sec
repos_interval_tolerance[0]=10 #%
```
8. install crontab or systemd-timer
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