zbv-parser – The simple Zetaback Violator report parser.

By Jared Koumentis

What it does.

• Takes input of a plain text file in the format of a Zetaback violator report.
• Outputs only legit violators. (To allow you to focus on your work.)

Why it exists.

• In my work, I have to review Zetaback violator reports. These are used to ensure our backups are up to date.
• Any backup that is “stale”, that is older than 14 days, ends up in the report.
• The objective is to allow you to use the report and determine what you should look at and ensure that your backups are working properly.
• Unfortunately, the way it reports, it will not take into consideration that a Full backup is dependent on an Incremental that has not gone stale. However, it will still report the Full backup as “stale”.
• These false positives suck and make my job harder. So, this exists to trim out these false positives.

How to use it.

• Call the program like “$ ruby zbv-parser.rb ./zetaback-report”
• It will then parse your log, finding actual violations, and output to your terminal with the actual violators.
• Take care of the violators while enjoying the fact that you don’t have to attempt to manually parse through all the false positives.

Requirements.

• Ruby ~> 1.9

License

• MIT license. See LICENSE for details.