Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:37:19 -0800 (PST) From: "drcubi@yahoo.com" <drcubi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab) Message-ID: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 = Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly. This is one example=A0 -=A0 the daily=A0 (/backup is a seperate physical dr= ive) : #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 All files created where chmod'd with +x, then I test the scripts by running= them manually and all three, daily, weekly & monthly work fine. FInal step, I add to root=A0crontab, by using : crontab -e=A0 I added following lines : 1=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 23=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 /usr/local/sbin/backup/monthly 1=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 21=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0 0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 /usr/local/sbin/backup/weekly 1=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 23=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0 1-5=A0=A0=A0=A0 /usr/local/sbin/backup/daily crontab -l shows all is OK as well. But the scheduled backups never happen. I must be doing something wrong, bu= t can't figure out what. All help would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you, Darren =A0 =A0 =A0=0A=0A=0A
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