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I am having trouble getting rdiff-backup to run as a cron job.

I'm not sure if I need to change the format of my cron command. The
command shown works fine from the command line.

Here is my cron entry:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.17874 installed on Wed Jan 28 17:56:25 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
$)
0 0 * * * rdiff-backup -v6
--exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files
root < at > 206.39.18.176::/ /home/backup/domain/backup

I checked the log file for cron and found this:

Jan 28 18:00:00 localhost CROND[17880]: (root) CMD (rdiff-backup -v6
--exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files
root < at > 206.39.18.176::/ /home/backup/domain/backup)

I am unfamiliar with cron errors but that doesn't look like one to me.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks.

Chris Young

Synergy Point
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I found the problem.

Simple path problem.

Thanks.

Chris Young

Synergy Point
Toll Free: (877) 859-6370
Local: (828) 859-2444
Fax: (877) 633-5373
Web: http://www.synergypoint.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:jt < at > OnJapan.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:37 PM
To: Chris Young
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Help with rdiff-backup and cron


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Chris Young wrote:
I am having trouble getting rdiff-backup to run as a cron job.

I'm not sure if I need to change the format of my cron command. The
command shown works fine from the command line.

Here is my cron entry:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.17874 installed on Wed Jan 28 17:56:25 2004) # (Cron
version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
$)
0 0 * * * rdiff-backup -v6
--exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files
root < at > 206.39.18.176::/ /home/backup/domain/backup

Is rdiff-backup in the PATH when cron runs? Did you try putting the
full path to the rdiff-backup executable?

Do you get any mail when the cronjob runs? (Is cron running?