From 280d721e5eca99d645d791f839eca2541f3ea5dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan-Piet Mens <jp@mens.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:38:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] optional healthcheck URL

---
 bin/backup              | 4 ++++
 etc/backup/local.config | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bin/backup b/bin/backup
index 28d9614..2c5c62d 100755
--- a/bin/backup
+++ b/bin/backup
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ do_local_backup () {
 
 	. /etc/backup/local.config
 	$RESTIC --exclude-file /etc/backup/local.exclude backup --hostname $BACKUP_HOSTNAME $BACKUP_DIR 
+
+	if [ -n "$HEALTHCHECK_URL" ]; then
+		curl -fsS --retry 4 "$HEALTHCHECK_URL"  > /dev/null
+	fi
 }
 
 do_monitor () {
diff --git a/etc/backup/local.config b/etc/backup/local.config
index a1b2f0c..6f37118 100644
--- a/etc/backup/local.config
+++ b/etc/backup/local.config
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 BACKUP_HOSTNAME="backuphost.example.org"
 BACKUP_DIR="/"
+# HEALTHCHECK_URL="<URL from https://healthchecks.io/checks/ to notify>"