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On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:01:48 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are |
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> like this: |
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> # perform tar.tgz backup of /etc |
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> tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc |
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> When I run this script manually, it does what it is supposed to, and |
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> the resulting file is about 500K. |
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> When it runs from cron (roots crontab), it results in a 20 byte (empty) |
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> file. |
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You're running tar with -v so it should produce output no matter what it |
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does. Is that mailed to you? What does it say? |
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You could add "set -x" at the start of the script for an even more |
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verbose report. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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