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@@ -65,4 +65,14 @@ and create them. We have yet to create proper authorized_keys
management to make that process completely automatic.
At the moment, not all the backupninja handlers are available, they
-are relatively easy to add however. \ No newline at end of file
+are relatively easy to add however.
+
+Nagios alerts about backup freshness
+------------------------------------
+
+If you set the $nagios_server variable to be the name of your nagios server,
+then a passive nagios service gets setup so that the backup server pushes
+checks, via a cronjob that calls /usr/local/bin/checkbackups.pl, to the
+nagios server to alert about relative backup freshness.
+
+Note: this $nagios_server variable must be set before the class is included. \ No newline at end of file