u/PermissionBest2379

Cloud Backup centre notification alerts

I've had an Asustor for about 5 years, for simple home / family use, happily doing its thing and backing up to a cloud service (BackBlaze) daily.

I noticed by chance last week that the backup jobs have been failing for about a month and although I have it set to email system alerts, this didn't apply to the Cloud Backup Centre app. Having a dig around it appears that the app places an entry to the System Log for job creation / job deletion, but not job started / completed / failed. The app does record these events but it seems to do it in another database, accessed from within the app.

My request is to have these log entries sent to me, but I can't figure out how (without going down the line of writing a cron job to read the app log and email me).

(The other side of the problem is there was an issue getting data to BackBlaze that they weren't helpful in resolving. I fixed that in the end by simply creating a new bucket (didn't change any other settings), which indicates the bucket on BackBlaze was not as it should be.)

EDITED : As it turns out the functionality isn't in the product, I created a script to read Cloud Backup Centre's log database, format each job (success or failure) into a readable line and runs every morning at 06:00 via cron, emailing results (remembering what has already been sent). Works a treat

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u/PermissionBest2379 — 8 days ago

Rebuild costs

House insurance renewal time. The insurer has increased the cost of the rebuild estimation by $100k but it still looks / feels low. As everything building wise seems very expensive right now and being underinsured is a terrible thing I want to make sure their estimate is in the right ballpark.

Having a search it suggests Cordell is the place to go for accuracy. It suggested a figure about 60% of the insurer's estimate, which should indicate the insurer's estimate is fine.. but it still *feels* low. I've tried a couple of other calculators and they've come up with similar figures. I'm in an expensive area of Sydney that's known for builders charging what they want.

Are these calculators about right? I have a huge mistrust of insurers (had a mate who was unknowingly underinsured and got absolutely rooted)

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u/PermissionBest2379 — 1 month ago