Couple of thoughts:
cron jobs usually have a slightly different shell environment ($PATH,
etc)...I suspect what was going wrong was it could not find the full
path to dpkg or something like that.
I would suggest additionally using the -p flag for your cp command, so
that you preserve the file
Okay I got this cron job accomplished. The command I was going to use
would not run properly in crontab most likely because of some unknown
syntax problem. However, I did get a cron job going by making a simple
script to run from cron instead.
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> > I've heard this a couple times now, but never had anyone explain why the
> > $( ) format is preferred over the back quote in bash scripts. I have
> > begun to try remembering to use the $( ) format in my scripts now, but I
> > still find myself using back quotes quite often. So why is back quot
Am 11. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Matrix Mole so:
der.hans wrote:
Am 11. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Patrick Fleming, EA so:
BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -
Use $( ) format for bash and ksh scripts :).
BACKUPDIRNAME=$( date +Y%m%d% )
I've heard this a couple times now, but never had
Thanks guys. I thought it had to do something with the $() and date
formats but wasn't quite sure. I used a program called keep which is
really nice and easy and all gui for KDE but it hosed my whole usb
partition and set up its own file structure and I don't know if it was
full backups or just inc
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der.hans wrote:
> Am 11. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Patrick Fleming, EA so:
>
>> BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -
>
> Use $( ) format for bash and ksh scripts :).
>
> BACKUPDIRNAME=$( date +Y%m%d% )
I've heard this a couple times now, b
After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> Am 11. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Patrick Fleming, EA so:
> > BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -
> Use $( ) format for bash and ksh scripts :).
> BACKUPDIRNAME=$( date +Y%m%d% )
Better yet, BACKUPDIRNAME=$( date +%Y%m%d ) unless you h
Am 11. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Patrick Fleming, EA so:
BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -
Use $( ) format for bash and ksh scripts :).
BACKUPDIRNAME=$( date +Y%m%d% )
ciao,
der.hans
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BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -
mkdir /media/usbthingy/${BACKUPDIRNAME}
cp -av /blah /media/usbthingy/${BACKUPDIRNAME}
gm5729 wrote:
> I am looking at trying to set up a cron job to do automatic backups of
> my /home directory. I
I am looking at trying to set up a cron job to do automatic backups of
my /home directory. I want to do a full backup each time with no
incremental backups. However I would like to use a date format for the
main folder so it is easy to tell by looking at the usb hdd when it
backed up last.
How do
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