Hi all all this talk of Crontabs got me wondering why my daily Drakbackup (to separate harddrive) has packed a sad
it used to work beautifully and send me a nice email every day, but now it only works when I run it manually (sob!) I've tried running the Drakbackup wizard from scratch without success my: file:/etc/drakxtools/drakbackup/drakbackup.conf looks like this... SYS_FILES=/etc HOME_FILES=dave sue sarah emily zghl root OTHER_FILES=/home/shared/AddressBooks-Calender/ /home/shared/LinuxHowtos/ /home/shared/shared/ PATH_TO_SAVE=/mnt/windows/Linuxbackup/ HOST_PATH= NET_PROTO= CD_TIME=700 Mb [EMAIL PROTECTED] DAEMON_TIME_SPACE=daily CD_DEVICE=0,0,0 LOGIN= TAPE_DEVICE= HOST_NAME= NO_CRITICAL_SYS SEND_MAIL USER_KEYS DAEMON_MEDIA=hd USE_HD CDRW NO_SYS_FILES OPTION_COMP=TAR.GZ DEL_HD_FILES any ideas on why the daily backup doesn't automatically run On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:12, you wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:41:47AM +1200, C Falconer wrote: > > > /etc/crontab should really only be used for system maintenance tasks... > > > > Why is that? > > > > I have up to 12 lines in one machine's /etc/crontab... they're doing a > > variety of things from log processing to doing a daily backup to more > > log processing, which *could* be done as non-root I suppose. > > That's system maintenance.. to me. but as has been mentioned, probably not > the best thing to do. > > Mike. -- cheers.............dave Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ----------------------------------------- KMail on Davesmachine Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) i586 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686[ELF] -----------------------------------------
