After looking into it a little more, it seems I had two problems.
1. Conexion opening and closing without copying data.
That appears to be an env variables issue that seems to be fixed
wrapping it in a script.
2. Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing ssh -C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Hi,
the line wrapping was a bit of a mess...
How would you improve on it?
but it looks to me like the link
died -- is this over a dsl line or something?
Yes. There are remote offices all over the country. The company pays
telecom for a private frame relay network.
It is possible that the
rdiff-backup command
(or put backup.sh /tmp/backup.log in crontab)
regards
roland
- Original Message -
From: Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:48 AM
Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] cron job opens and closes ssh without
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Chris Fanning wrote:
I've got a problem running rdiff-backup as a cron job.
do you get any mail from cron? usually you should get some mail with
stdout/stderr in it... i'm guessing it would help diagnose this...
-dean
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Hi,
Roland.
(or put backup.sh /tmp/backup.log in crontab)
/tmp/backup.log empty :(
Dean,
do you get any mail from cron? usually you should get some mail with
stdout/stderr in it... i'm guessing it would help diagnose this...
Here goes..
From root Wed Jun 7 09:32:02 2006
Date: Wed, 7
Hi all,
After trying Roland's suggestion to wrap the script I realized that it
works when wrapped.
11 12 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /copies/commands/xen1-bcn.home.sync
more /copies/commands/xen1-bcn.home.sync
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/home/pas /copies/xen1-bcn/pas
But if I