It sounds like you're already this far, but you can specify local backups (in addition to SSH or FTP backups) at the following page:
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If you hit test permissions and you're getting a permissions problem, that means that the directory you've selected for backups is probably not read/write-able by the 'nagios' user. To test this, log into the nagios device using SSH or similar, and run the following command:
For example, if I chose
/nagiosbackups/backups as my directory of choice, I would run:
This will give us a list of permissions for that directory.
ls -l -d /nagiosbackups/backups
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 15:12 /nagiosbackups/backups
Note that drwxr-xr-x are the
read-write permissions, and root root is the owner/group.
You will want this directory to be owned by nagios/nagios, and the nagios user needs proper permissions. Following my example, we'll change the directory permissions with the following command:
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chmod u+rw /nagiosbackups/backup
chmod g+rw /nagiosbackups/backup
chown nagios:nagios /nagiosbackups/backup
Let's check the permissions now...
ls -ld /nagiosbackups/backups/
drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 May 11 15:12 /nagiosbackups/backups/
Looks good - run 'test permissions' once more and you should see it pass successfully.