I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I want the backups to
go to one disk drive, Backup1, Monday thru Saturday and a different disk
drive, Backup2, on Sunday. I used Kcron to enter the crontab data
running as root. Here's what crontab looks like if I run crontab -l
after logging in as
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:52 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
> I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup.
I think this is the second time you've posted this query. The first time
it was suggested to use the full path for rdiff-backup, which is a good
suggestion. But you haven't done that and
Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:52 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
>> I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup.
>
> I think this is the second time you've posted this query. The first time
> it was suggested to use the full path for rdiff-backup, which is a good
> suggestion.
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* Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-21-07 18:22]:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> >
> > Another suggestion. Start YaST. Go to system, sysconfig editor, system,
> > cron and set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to yes. Report back what gets output
> > when the scri
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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> * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-21-07 18:22]:
>> Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> Another suggestion. Start YaST. Go to system, sysconfig editor, system,
>>> cron and set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to yes. Report back what g
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The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 02:34 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the
backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set
SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that ma
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* Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]:
> Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the
> backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set
> SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that mail get
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The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 09:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR merely sets cron to report "successful" activity
to root. It did nothing to your cron job.
...
time a cron job is successful. You *will* change it when you
On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]:
> > Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the
> > backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set
> > SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, w
Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>> * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]:
>>> Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the
>>> backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set
>>> SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_E
Donald D Henson wrote:
I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I want the backups to
go to one disk drive, Backup1, Monday thru Saturday and a different disk
drive, Backup2, on Sunday. I used Kcron to enter the crontab data
running as root. Here's what crontab looks like if I run cront
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