I have configured my VSX appliances to perfom scheduled backups every week. Today, my icinga monitoring system has raised an alert informing that VSX2 backup has failed.

Icinga monitoring checkpoint VSX backups

GAIA provides some commands to get useful data about the execution of the backup processes.

last-successful

Show the the latest successful backup

vsx2:0> show backup last-successful
Backup Type: local ( latest )
Backup file location: /var/log/CPbackup/backups/R77/backup_vsx2_18_Dec_2017_22_04.tgz
Backup process finished in 55:37 minutes
Backup Date: 18-Dec-2017 23:00:31

Backup Type: scp
Backup file uploaded to: 192.168.192.70
Backup file location: /var/log/checkpoint2/BACKUPS_VSX/backup_vsx2_15_Dec_2017_01_00.tgz
Backup process finished in 61:28 minutes
Backup Date: 15-Dec-2017 02:01:29

status

Show the logs of the recent backups/resores performed

vsx2:0> show backup status
scp backup has failed.
Cannot complete the backup process: not enough space in /var/log/CPbackup/backups .

Backup operation failed.

logs

Show the status of the latest backup/restore

vsx2:0> show backup logs
Fri Dec 22 01:00:01 2017         Fri Dec 22 02:00:01 2017        Failure         Backup          SCP     Cannot complete the backup process: not enough space in /var/log/CPbackup/backups .  Backup operation failed.             backup_vsx2_22_Dec_2017_01_00   10.100.100.200

Fri Dec 15 01:00:01 2017         Fri Dec 15 02:00:01 2017        Success         Backup          SCP     -       backup_vsx2_15_Dec_2017_01_00.tgz       192.168.192.70

After realizing the problem was there was not enough space to generate the backup, i removed old backups files and the problem was fixed. 🙂