Hi Marco!
Thank you for the advice.
I got:
/home/swkm/services/test/backup.sh: line 4: pg_dump: command not found
updating: mydb_dump_22-11-07.out (stored 0%)
which seems strange
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Bizzarri
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:28 PM
To: Sorin N. Ciolofan
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron
On Nov 22, 2007 2:19 PM, Sorin N. Ciolofan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I've a small bash script backup.sh for creating dumps on my Postgre db:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> time=`date '+%d'-'%m'-'%y'`
> cd /home/swkm/services/test
> pg_dump mydb > mydb_dump_$time.out
>
> I've edited crontab and added a line:
>
> 00 4 * * * swkm /home/swkm/services/test/backup.sh
>
> to execute the backup.sh as user swkm daily at 4 am.
>
> The user swkm is the user I use to create backups manually. The script
> itself is executed fine if run manually but run on cron scheduler I got an
> mydb_dump_$time.out file empty (of 0 kb)
>
> Do you have any idea about what's wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Sorin
>
Hi Sorin,
why don't you add a "MAILTO=<youraddress>" at the start of your
crontab file, so that you can receive a report of the problem?
Regards
Marco
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