Jerry Houston wrote:
Regarding my problems getting scheduled backups (defined using YaST) to run:
I read another description of scheduling backups in yet another of my
SuSE Linux books, and came across some very non-obvious requirements in
the notes there. I'll point them out here, in case anyone else is in
the same situation as I.
For one, there can be no spaces in the name of a backup. I'm not
talking about the backup _file_ name, but the name of the backup
itself. So apparently 'full system backup' won't work, but
'full_system_backup' should be okay. According to that book, the
backup tool will accept a backup name with a space in it without
complaint (as I found out), but the backup won't run.
Remember...embedded spaces in names cause innumerable problems.
By the way:
full.system.backup is easier to type than full_system_backup.
Also, after scheduling the backup(s), one must restart the computer.
Are you sure?
If it's scheduled in cron there's no need to reboot...
cron re-reads the crontab files every time a new one
is committed (using the crontab command).
Nowhere else did I see any indication of that requirement.
So I've renamed my two backups, rescheduled them, and rebooted the
system. Hopefully that will do it.
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