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On 03/31/2014 04:01 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Ok, this is really irritating me... |
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> I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are like |
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> 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 the |
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> 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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> So what am I missing/doing wrong? |
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You need to use the full path to commands in your script or set an |
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environment variable. In my case using full paths to executables was enough. |
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i.e. |
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# perform tar.tgz backup of /etc |
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/bin/tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc |
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Dan |