Backup Job Health

Backup Job Health is a skill for Claude Code from WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for checking whether backup jobs are running successfully across different backup and disaster-recovery systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for portfolio-wide backup health checks, finding consecutive failures and missed jobs, and tracking storage use across connected backup services.
Why use it?
It catches failed or missed backups before a recovery is needed, while keeping the focus on whether backups are happening rather than whether they can already be restored.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the backup-pack plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for portfolio-wide backup health checks, finding consecutive failures and missed jobs, and tracking storage use across connected backup services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyre-ai/msp-claude-plugins/backup-job-health
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins --skill backup-job-health
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install backup-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,962 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00101 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash 219f87c7b406, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Backup Job Health scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

msp-claude-plugins/backup-pack/skills/backup-job-health/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backup Job Health

Overview

"Backups are running" is the single most-assumed, least-verified fact in an MSP's environment. A backup job that failed silently three nights ago looks identical, from a distance, to one that's been succeeding for months — nobody notices until a restore is needed and there's nothing current to restore from. This skill is the recurring, portfolio-wide sweep that catches that gap before it becomes an incident: job success/ failure rate, missed-backup detection, and storage-consumption trending, rolled into one normalized view across every backup and BCDR tool an org has connected.

This skill is about whether backups are happening. It is deliberately narrower than disaster-recovery readiness as a whole — it does not assess whether a backup, once taken, is actually recoverable (see restore-test-verification), and it does not assess whether the retention window or cadence in place actually satisfies a contracted requirement (see retention-rpo-compliance). Treat this as the first, most frequent layer of the DR assurance stack: if jobs aren't running, nothing downstream matters yet.

Anti-triggers

  • Backup Radar's own health records — ScalePad already aggregates and scores backup results across vendors; use scalepad-backup-radar when the question is what that API returns. This skill normalizes across every connected backup tool, including orgs that have no Backup Radar at all.
  • One platform's job, alert, or storage data — use datto-bcdr-api-patterns, datto-saas-protection-api-patterns, spanning-api-patterns, or unitrends-api-patterns for a single vendor's request shapes and field names.

Key Concepts

Two fundamentally different job models

Backup and BCDR vendors protect data in two structurally different ways, and treating them as the same "job" concept produces misleading comparisons:

  • Image-based appliance backup (e.g. Datto BCDR / SIRIS / Alto, Unitrends) — protects physical or virtual servers/workstations by taking periodic block-level or image-level snapshots to a local appliance, then syncing offsite/to the cloud. A "job" here is a scheduled backup of one protected agent/asset on one appliance. Health signals include: last successful local backup, last successful offsite sync, and (for Datto BCDR specifically) screenshot/boot verification status — see restore-test-verification.
  • SaaS-data snapshot backup (e.g. Datto SaaS Protection, Spanning) — protects cloud application data (Microsoft 365 mailboxes/OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams, Google Workspace, Salesforce) by taking periodic API-level snapshots of tenant data. A "job" here is a scheduled backup pass across a set of protected seats/users for a tenant. There is no "appliance" and no local/offsite sync distinction — health signals are seat coverage (are all licensed users actually being backed up) and per-run success/failure across the tenant.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 169 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 219f87c7b406

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Backup Job Health is a skill published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins (45 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,962 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.