Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:02:54 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: drcubi@yahoo.com, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab) Message-ID: <200901301102.54444.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <498354F0.6050000@boosten.org> References: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <498354F0.6050000@boosten.org>
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On Friday 30 January 2009 10:28:48 Peter Boosten wrote:
> drcubi@yahoo.com wrote:
> > #daily backup script
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Access/ /backup/daily/Access
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Templates/ /backup/daily/Templates
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/QBdata/ /backup/daily/QBdata
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception1/ /backup/daily/reception1
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception2/ /backup/daily/reception2
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception3/ /backup/daily/reception3
> > rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Files/ /backup/daily/Files
> >
> > But the scheduled backups never happen. I must be doing something wrong,
> > but can't figure out what.
>
> rsync isn't in the path of cron. You should either provide the complete
> path in the script, of add /usr/local/bin to your crontab.
And while you're at it, configure your sendmail/aliases properly so you get
CRON's diagnostics.
Meaning, change this line in /etc/aliases and run newaliases command:
# root: me@my.domain
You may wanna skip through /var/mail/root to see if there's anything else you
missed ;)
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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