I'd like to monitor my backup scripts with an external cronjob monitoring (something like https://uptimerobot.com/cron-job-monitoring/). There you have to send a periodic heartbeat to a defined URL to show that the backup job is running.

I was thinking about adding something like this to the backup-script:

rm -f $pid # remove pid file just before exiting

# new part
{% if push_monitoring_url is defined %}
curl {{ push_monitoring_url }}
{% endif %}

exit

What do you think? Would you be willing to accept this change?