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#1 Re: General matters » Multiple Jobs » 2020-03-09 12:19:11
Hi,
Just tried it and all seesm to work as I expected just created a new job 002 and that added a new line for that to the root-crontab file.
So all good.
#2 General matters » Multiple Jobs » 2020-03-09 09:49:36
- jcp2mill
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Hi Probably a silly quations but I want to run backups to two locations so I want to backup every night to a local location and once a week to a remote location. Do I just create another job and then add it to the root-crontab to do this?
#3 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-18 08:49:47
Sorry I just did the obvious thing and checked the log it's my first lien in my job file it reads:
"/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup"
should be:
"/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup"
I looked at it a thousand times but only just noticed that when I saw the path wasn't found in the log. 
Thanks you for your help and apologies for missing the obvious I think the thing that was throwing me was that I could execute the job by using xsibackup --run-backup=001
In nay case thanks for a great piece of software and have a great xmas!
#4 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-18 08:35:38
Hi,
No problem it wasn't an issue as such just wondered if it might be what was causing my problem.
Any ideas?
My root-crontab looks like this:
25 12 * * * "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/jobs/001" > /dev/null 2>
I can't execute 001 locally from bash but not sure if I should be able to or not?
#5 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-17 11:51:40
I should mention that I used the installer to install my xsibackup and although everything installed and tested oK a job directory was not automatically created so I created one myself using mkdir. IS it possible it's the permissions of this folder that are cuasing the issue?
#6 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-17 11:49:25
Hi, Sorry for the delayed update been on other things for a while. I got my other cron task (echo) running so I know cron is running OK.
should I be able to run my xsibackup job manually so if i enter "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/jobs/001"
in a root command prompt should it run?
(because it doesn't on my install) i tried chmod =x on the 001 file itself but didn't seem to make any difference
#7 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-12 17:10:18
I've sucessfully added extra line to crontab and it is running ok, so does that mean it's the syntax of my job even though it runs ok locally?
#8 Re: General matters » Cronjob won't run » 2019-12-12 15:11:22
Hi Sorry to hijack this thread but I'm also having problems with the new cron method I've created a job and can run it successfully using ./xsibackup --run-backup=001
but it never runs from cron I've run update-cron rebooted the host etc but still not running any ideas.
I've checked if cron is running by doing:
ps -c | grep -v grep | grep 'busybox crond'
I can see my line in crontab so I'm not sure where the issue is.
I'm unable to add a line to the crontab to test directly as vi says the file is read only even when cron is stopped
I've set permissions on xsi-dir to 755
Any recommendations as to where to go next?
my job looks like this:
"/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/BACKUP-STORE \
--backup-type=all \
--date-dir=yes \
--backup-room=1000 \
-–mail-from=backuphost01@internalmail.co.uk \
--mail-to=sysadmin@internalmail.co.uk \
--backup-id=001 \
--description"BACKUP-HOST01 Vm backup" \
--smtp-srv=mailserver.com \
--smtp-port=465 \
--smtp-usr=emailaddr@gmail.com \
--smtp-pwd=password \
--smtp-auth=yes \
--smtp-sec=TLS \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log" 2>&1
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