I saw this line: /bin/sh^M and thought that you prolly used an editor that fuxed the script.

I know this is a really old thread, but I don't think my issue warrants a new one.

I'm getting this error with the script:
/bin/sh: /home/<USERNAME>/backup/backupscript.sh: cannot execute binary file

I've checked all the permissions and settings, and gone through it all again countless times. I've checked with my host and they say it's a problem with the file, but since everyone else has no trouble I am not sure whether that's true. Does anyone have any insight into this?
Thanks

Make sure the first line is #!/bin/sh

If it isn't, make sure you edit it using a text editor that understand UNIX line endings (one of my favorites here) so you don't get the ^M character at the end of the line that tends to break stuff.

And even if you aren't using a text editor that understands UNIX, you can correct that by running the following command in shell:

dos2unix backupscript.sh

This doesn't work in my case. I am using directadmin. Can anybody help me how to do it with directadmin please.

Thanks.

I installed this script on a rather large medical forum a couple of months ago, and it seemed to be working ok at the time. I happened to check on the directory this morning and found all three zip files were only 20 bytes large, and the .sql files they contained were blank. The script has been running on time and creating zip files, just not saving any actual data. Could this be because of the size of the database? The backups I have saved to disk are around 25meg, I'm sure it would be larger now.

Any ideas?

Directadmin? That's a windows server ain't it - this script won't work on windows

No it's not a windows server. It is centos. Do you have any idea is it gonna work in there or not ?

Not sure what I did [maybe it was changing the file encoding or removing a space after the shebang] but I've got it to work! Now to get an automated transfer to my backup host going... Thanks all for the help

Isnt it amazing when you dont know what you do it just works? lol thats what happend to me

Congrats! haha