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      irishfoguser
      last edited by irishfoguser

      I am trying to setup a task to backup \images\ to a usb drive but i cant get it to work.

      I am using a program called grysnc and i have setup a task called images to do the backing up. it works grsync program.

      i have setup a crontab as follows but using the command crontab -e i am using Unbuntu 14.04

      00 02 * * 0-6 grsync -e images
      that doesnt work

      I tried adding in some logging, bu t that doesnt work either.
      00 02 * * 0-6 grsync -e images >> /home/myusername/logs/backup.log 2>&1

      Thanks and Happy christmas all.

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
        last edited by

        your crontab should be:

        00 02 * * * grsync -e /images >>/home/myusername/logs/backup.log 2>&1

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        • Tom ElliottT
          Tom Elliott
          last edited by

          Also, 0-6 on the DOW is the same as Everyday so you can literally just run * for that field.

          0 is the same as 00 and 02 is the same as 2 so you can literally use:

          0 2 * * * for the crontab itself.

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            irishfoguser
            last edited by

            Thanks tom. made the suggested changes and ill see what happens tonight.

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            • Tom ElliottT
              Tom Elliott
              last edited by

              Your backup task is named images?

              What’s the actual backup task look like?

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                irishfoguser @Tom Elliott
                last edited by irishfoguser

                @Tom-Elliott rsync -r -n -p -o -g -v --progress --delete --ignore-existing -i -s /images/ /media/myusername/5E8D585C1892608A/images

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                • Wayne WorkmanW
                  Wayne Workman
                  last edited by

                  You have to path to the executable or include PATH in the crontab itself.

                  so if you ran command -v grsync it would give you the full path, you’d use this full path instead of just grsync. Or you could just stick the path at the top of the crontab file. echo $PATH and then take the output and put it into line 1 of the crontab as a variable like PATH="put the path output here"

                  Read through this, they may make better sense than me. Plus I’m tired. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388087/how-to-get-cron-to-call-in-the-correct-paths

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