Hi Sean, I've figured it out eventually,
I've added the following environmental variables and it worked. LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 19:16 Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: Can you share the actual crontab config? Cron has no environment, unlike a user shell. Are you specifying the full path for influxd? Perhaps there's a missing environment variable? On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Guys, I'm struggling with the following, influxdb ver 1.0.2 OS EL7.2 Using the following to command to backup influxd backup -database test /var/backups/influxdb which works and it backs up all the meta and shards. But using the same command in crontab or even cron file, I only get the meta backed up. SO, am I missing something obvious? Thanks, Danie -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/16571b1a-6f28-471c-bc6c-813746a5c67b%40googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Sean Beckett Director of Support and Professional Services InfluxDB -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/influxdb/TcjVS4FjGrk/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvPnJzyqkyetG1DzZ69Z0Rd65YpfBmzuW7GcHe68D5hskg%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvPnJzyqkyetG1DzZ69Z0Rd65YpfBmzuW7GcHe68D5hskg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CAAZZXtPy%3DmpJWzf9qbckNM_UOuhyOk-LxUk5yTZWkCCOPjFSjw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
