I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup user):
run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3)
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Maybe this is a MySQL question, maybe not...
I've written a shell script to back up a database.
But when I run it, it prompts for password even though the script provides it. If I'm doing this manually, it's not a problem, but I want to make a cron job to do it...
Here's the script: Quote: #!/bin/bash
set -xv
#First let's rotate the backup files...
/bin/mv /home/cabazio/someDB-3.tar.gz /home/some/someDB-4.tar.gz
/bin/mv /home/some/someDB-2.tar.gz /home/some/someDB-3.tar.gz
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This is Kishore and i am new to Ubuntu and SVN and please some one help me in creating a cron job for my svn backup every day at 10:30 pm I already created a cron job which looks like 30 10 * * * svnadmin dump /home/administrator/svnrepository >svn1 when i run command directly i am getting whole backup and it's size is 3.6 gb but when i run through cron job the backup size is only 9 mb. So finally my requests are 1. cron job for taking complete svn backup at 10:30 pm daily and 2. cron job to copy the SVN backup in to my windows system in d drive and this must be run every day at 11:30 pm.
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I have a really simple cron job script like this:
When i run this manually it works fine but when i run it from my ROOT user in Plesk as a cron task is always creates a file that is just 45 bytes. Why doesn't it work... I am running it as a root user.. so surely i must have permission to access the file?
I am trying to install luckybackup on my ubuntu 10.10 notebook edition. But everytime I get the message box: Requires installation of untrusted packages. The action would require the installation of packages from unauthenticated sources. I press OK, and it fails. I have repeated this a few times, it afails everytime.
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In "crontab -e" (and sudo crontab-e - I tried both) I enter "0 22 * * * /home/USERNAME/.backup.sh", with the hope that it will run the script at 10pm each day. The srcipt work fine if I run in a terminal. why it won't work? It's bound to be something obvious....
What's a good cron script for backing up and zipping a directory of files, or multiple directories with files, to a backup directory on my server, on a daily basis?I found an easy to use mysql backup script, now I need to backup my site directory, but not all the directories in it. So I need a method in the script to omit certain directories from backing up, ie dirs that contain gigs worth of files.This seems like it should be one of the most common crons to set a server up with but two pages deep in google (and here) I have yet to find anything remotely resembling a solution.
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It looks like crond is not running. If I try to start it, here's what I get:
Pancho:/home/lloyd# /etc/init.d/cron start
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond failed!
MORE INFO:
lloyd@Pancho:~$ /etc/init.d/cron start
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond/etc/init.d/cron: line 54: start-stop-daemon: command not found
failed!
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Clearly the problem failure to find start-stop-daemon is not the problem and I'm still in the dark.
I am trying to write as bash script in order to have backup done by cron on the webhosting server. I want all backup runs to have incremental number in front of them. I came up with an idea to store incremental number of a backup in txt file on a server so when next one runs is can check the number in the file. However I am having terrible issues. My script:
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we have a server that runs a backup (cron job) at 9:15 every night. When I log on in the morning I have mail message that gives me a long list of all the files that were backed up the night before. For a couple of weeks now, the mail message gives me an empty list. Yet, when I run the same job manually from a #prompt, it runs. I am not able to run this job with cron in the daytime because too many users are in it. I wanted to browse the tape to see if the backup is really failing to copy the files or if they are on the tape and the mail message is bogus.
Since the backkup was done with cpio instead of tar, I'm not sure if I can browse the tape with restore -i anyway.What would be the best way to browse the tape on /dev/rmt/1 without actually restoring anything ?This is an ancient DGUX system, not Linux, and I'm not a unix expert I just inherited this server recently, but a lot of things are very similar to Linux and it looked like this might be a good place to ask.
I own a CentOS 5 VPS. I typed crontab -e, and then I added the following line to automatically have my server backup mysql
0 * * * * mysqldump -u root -p password --all-databases | gzip > /home/dbbackup/database_`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.sql.gz
When I go in and look, it doesn't place any files in /home/dbbackup. When I run
mysqldump -u root -p password --all-databases | gzip > /home/dbbackup/database_`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.sql.gz
I have a cron backup scheme in which I rsync, then tar, then copy files on my internal hard drives to an external (USB) drive. When it works, it works. But I often get a "Permission Denied" message for all of these tasks. how the external drive is auto-mounted so I edited the etc/fstab so that the owner of the cron job is also the owner of the external drive (I think. Unfortunately, I'm not at that machine right now (it's at work), I can't give the exact fstab line (I will post it as an update to this thread next time I am at the machine).) BUT, I still get times when the cron backup runs fine and other times I get the Permission Denied. This is a shared machine that is dual-booted, so what I *think* is going on is that when the machine is rebooted to Fedora, but nobody logs in, I get a Permission Denied for the cron backup. It seems like on days when someone has logged in as the main user and left without logging out that the cron backup runs fine.
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I'm running a cron job every night to dump a MySQL database to an external hard drive. It works, however when I check on it the following morning the external is no longer mounted and the XFS log file is corrupted. If I run
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xfs_repair -L /dev/sdf1
It works, but then I get these issues:
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XFS: Filesystem sdf1 has duplicate UUID - can't mount
I can reset the UUID, but it's difficult to have to do this every day.
I have unison set up (using the .unison/default.prf config file) to sync certain directories on my work computer with my home computer.
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When I run the script manually it works perfectly, however for some reason when its run via cron it fails. I can see that it is executing but it seems to error for some reason.
Its kind of a drag to have a working script that when run as a cron job suddenly no longer works.
I would like to backup important files (totaling about 400GB) on my ext 4 RAID 5 array to an ext4 external hard drive over USB (external drive is mounted to /mnt. In the future I'd like to automate the process using rsync and cron so for now I'm using rsync to transfer the files. My problem is that using the rsync command like this: # rsync -Pr "/dir1" "/dir2" "/dir3" "/dir4" /mnt
rsync shows me the checks and transfers for awhile and then throws up an i/o error (wish I had a screenshot to show but I don't). When I ls /mnt I get a similar i/o error. I then check /dev for the drive and find that it no longer shows up. Originally the partition was /dev/sdc1. I tried unplugging the USB at this point, plugging it back in and mounting the drive back to /mnt, however it has now assigned it to (you guessed it) /dev/sdd1. I get the drive mounted and try the original rsync command again, hoping the first error was a fluke or some kind of one-time drive fart. This time it makes it quite a bit further and then throws up the exact same problem. Am I doing something terribly wrong here? As I said, I'm very new to bash so I'm not making some absolutely moronic, newbie mistake.
I have an Ubuntu server running Couch Potato, Sick Beard and Sabnzbdplus. Everything "works" pretty well in a sense that CP and SB push the NZB's to Sabnzbdplus, but Sab crashes regularly (haven't found the solution or the cause for this problem, so if you have some advice regarding that, it's welcome).To counter this problem (Sab crashing) I have a script written which checks if Sab is runnning and if it isn't start it:
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bart@Pyro:~$ cat CheckSabRunning.sh
#!/bin/sh
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I was trying to do a yum update from F10 to F11, which I screwed up early, but decided to try to fix along the way. I eventually gave up, and decided to restore the system from backup and restart the process.Thing is, however I try to do this, the HAL daemon fails on bootup, which prevents the system from properly going into runlevel 5. It actually does boot to the KDE login screen, but then refuses mouse or keyboard input.
The file systems look right after restore, and I have used this backup and restore procedure many times successfully. It's just a simple tar copy of the individual file systems: boot, root, usr and var. I also backup /home, but had no reason to restore it. tmp is also a mounted fs.At first, I simply overwrote the existing filesystems with the backup data, but thinking this is what was causing the problem, I recreated the file systems and restored to bare metal. Same problem.After that, i thought that perhaps the problem was that I'd only restored boot, root and usr (not var) not realizing that var is important to HAL, so I then erased and restored var. Same problem.The next logical move would be to erase and restore all four file systems simultaneously, but in addition to being very time consuming, I'm not sure it will do any good. Plus, the problem itself has become interesting.I also know that any sane person would have done a fresh install from the F11 disks by now, but what fun would that be? I can't help but feel there's a simple solution I'm overlooking. Any Ideas?Special bonus question: Due to some hardware changes, the default network device (eth0) no longer actually exists on this box. The actual network device is now eth1. Any idea how I can bring this up in runlevel 3 so I can at least get the damn thing back on the network?
is I've restored a tar.bz2 backup I've made, all fine until it comes to configure/make.the backup was made on my laptop, the transferred to another computer, I used tarxvpf filename
and sure backup was madetar -zcvpf filename / (--exclude=dev etc)dist is lfs,he laptopstill works fine, file date, size, mods all the same so quite pu as to way I get"/lib/gcc failed sanity check"when running .configurep.s. laptop and computer both based
I am trying to create a backup script that will back up a single folder for a class i am in. I was wandering if I could get some help. If possible I would also like to know how to write a script that can encrypt that same file . I will be putting the back up in my /home/usr/Backup directory. I am not trying to back up my whole system just a single folder. I am using Fedora 11
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The question I have is about where would be the typical location to auto mount this partition? Which would it be normal to go for:
1. /backup/
2. /media/backup/
3. /mnt/backup/
4. /home/chris/backup/
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server and Postgresql 8.4. I have a .sh script that is run by cron every other hour. That works fine. The .sh script includes an rsync command that copies a postgresql dump .tar file to a remote archive location via ssh. That fails when run by cron; I think because it is (quietly) asking for the remote user's password (and not getting it). I set up the public/private ssh key arrangement. The script succeeds when run manually as the same user that the cron job uses, and does not ask for the password. I am able to ssh to the remote server from the source server (using the same username) and not get the password prompt (both directions), so why doesn't rsync work? I even put a .pgpass file in the root of that user's directory with that user's password, and the user/password are identical on both servers.
I think the problem is rsync is not able to use the ssh key correctly. I tried adding this to my script but it didn't help.
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Here is the rsync command embedding in the .sh script.
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Here is the cron entry:
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Can some one give me a sample of a crontab for backing a directory please, System is Ubuntu 9.04Quote:
#!/bin/bash
# this file is an automated backup script, backup.sh.
# this backs up my domain site.
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Can anyone tell me how i change the default domain name for cron?everything i cron runs it emails from and to user@com.com
this leaves me with a massive list of failed mails in postfix.i have mailto on my main crontab but i cant do it on all of them.
I have added some executable scripts to /etc/cron.daily but don't get the stdout/stderr output from them as mail (or anywhere else I have found). At least one of them is running (because I can see that it has added a file to the disk).
The peculiar thing is that I do get the output from /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch (part of the logwatch package) as an email each day.
The MAILTO line in /etc/crontab is "MAILTO=root" (unchanged from default). Same for /etc/anacrontab.
I do have an alias at the end of /etc/aliases which redirects root's mail to my own account, but this alias works fine for mail I send manually. (It also appears to work fine for the output from the file /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch.)
It seems that cron is not upgrading my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server, no GUI installed. I changed /etc/crontab and watched apt running:
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ps -A | grep apt
showed it for a long time,
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sudo tcpdump tcp
showed communication with canonical sites,
but:
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top
did not show any apt using CPU
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I put in my cron entries to run my backup script which rsyncs my data to my 2nd drive, however on a hunch I checked my backup drive which mounts automatically via fstab and I realize it had not ran in a while. I checked cron and there were no entries for it. I got to wondering if I should ever be worried about a cron update coming down and over-writing my existing cron file with the backup entries in it to run.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have set up a cron in /var/spool/cron/root
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/phplist.sh
I can see in /var/log/cron that it is running every 15 minutes but it has no effect. It is not doing the commands in the bash script.
If I run /usr/bin/phplist.sh right in the shell it works great.