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02-25-2006, 08:50 PM

Ryan

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#18

By markblair on 02-27-2006, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryan

Right, when a fourth backup is made, the third oldest is deleted. You only have 3 backups at any given time. This does give me an idea, though. I can create more scripts which will maintain a different number of backups...ie: 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, more?

...

Would like to get some feedback here before creating the scripts and rewriting the tutorial though.

I'd say that 7 days should be more than enough. I do have a script that runs now which backs up my forum database every morning at 5:00am. It saves the files in the root of the site (i.e. /home/username/). I usually login every few days and download them. As you said, it might be a good idea to run this along with the script I currently run.

#19

By dazzlindonna on 02-27-2006, 08:03 AM

Didn't work. Darn.

#20

By Ryan on 02-27-2006, 08:08 AM

Have you checked everything twice?

Proper backupscript.sh configuration? Proper file extension? CHMOD the backup file to 755? Backup directory exists? Cron set up to run at the correct times?

If you have done all of this and can't locate the problem, feel free to PM me with FTP and cPanel access...If you'd rather not give that out, I can understand that as well...although in this situation, with no error reports, that's really the only way I can help out.

#21

By dazzlindonna on 02-27-2006, 02:53 PM

Email I got from cron says:

/bin/sh: line 1: home/myusername/backupfolder/backupscript.sh: No such file or directory

I checked everything several times. Directory there and spelled right. Check. Path correct. Check. Script there and spelled right. Check. chmod is 755. check.

I'll start over today with a fresh mind and see if there's anything I missed or misunderstood.

#22

By Ryan on 02-27-2006, 04:02 PM

Did you rename backupscript.sh.txt to backupscript.sh?

#23

By dazzlindonna on 02-27-2006, 04:55 PM

Yes, I did.

#24

By LarryB on 02-28-2006, 02:55 AM

I notice in the message you posted there is no slash before the home. In order to access home by absolute pathes it would need /home/myusername/backupfolder/...

#25

By dazzlindonna on 02-28-2006, 04:00 AM

Right, and despite the fact that the error message doesn't show the / before home, the / does exist in the file before the word home.

#26

By LarryB on 02-28-2006, 04:07 AM

interesting. that is very strange. Wonder what user the cron is executing as. If the cron is executing as a jail'd user it won't be able to find the folder.

#27

By dazzlindonna on 02-28-2006, 04:11 AM

I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds like a reasonable explanation. Ah well, back to manual backups for me.

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