Ryan Byrd's Tech Ramblings

maybe you have a bunch of daily rsnapshot cronjob backups and you’d like to know when they last ran. you can check the directory for the daily directory’s last modification time like this:

#!/bin/bash
BACKUPLIST=("/mnt/backup1/site1.example.com" "/mnt/backup1/site2.example.com")
for BACKUP in ${BACKUPLIST[@]}
do
        echo -ne "Checking $BACKUP: "
        cd $BACKUP
        CHECKCOMMAND=`find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime -2 -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT\n"`
        if [[ "$CHECKCOMMAND" == "" ]]; then
                echo -ne "\t ERROR: NO BACKUP found for yesterday! "
                MOSTRECENT=`ls -alht $BACKUP|head -n 3|tail -1|awk '{print $6 " " $7 " " $8}'`
                echo "most recent: $MOSTRECENT"
        else
                echo -e "\t okay"
        fi
done