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04.22.2008 at 02:53PM PDT, ID: 23344765
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Automated backup using cron...

Asked by aej1973 in Linux Administration

Tags: Red Hat Linux, ES4

Hi, I have a backup ftp script  that I run to backup a database and then ftp the tar file to a backup server. I need to automate this process and I have set up a cron task. I have added the following file in the cron.d
directory.

15     18    *     *   0-6            ~/backup.sh

I need to take a  backup from  Mon - Sat at 6.15 in the eveving. The scrip that need to run is backup.sh that is in the root directory. This does not seem to work. The backup.sh scrit works, but the automatic back up does not seem to be working.What could be the issue. The backup.sh script is attached.Start Free Trial 
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#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/mysql/data
 
tar -cvf win_backup_$(date +%b%d).tar ./win
mv win_backup_$(date +%b%d).tar /dbdata/apr_2008
###### FTP connections ######
echo now connecting to the ftp server...
USER="anonymous"
PASSWD="anonymous"
YES="y"
ftp -n -v 192.168.1.123 << EOF
user $USER $PASSWD $YES
mput /dbdata/apr_2008/win_backup_$(date +%b%d).tar
bye
 
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