Blog
Backup monitoring, in practice.
How to know your backups ran, for MSPs and IT teams. Useful whichever tool you use; where BackupSentinel comes in, we say so.
Writing a parsing rule for software without a built-in rule
What a backup report email must contain, matching its subject, why failed beats warning beats OK, the "0 errors" trap, and keeping regexes safe.
Running a backup wallboard in the office
What goes on a backup wall screen, how big it should be, how to make a frozen screen obvious, which account it signs in with, and who can see it.
Monitoring Veeam, Synology and Proxmox backup emails across many clients
What Veeam, Synology and Proxmox send, when one address per client is enough and when each job needs its own, naming that keeps reports matched, and how to verify the first report.