Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-21 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Stumpy: Thank you for the response. It actually ended up that cron did not like executing a script, I just put the exact same line from the script directly into cron. You can also put (executable) scripts directly in /etc/cron.daily or .weekly and they should run without having to mess with

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-21 Thread haaber
> > Thank you for the response. It actually ended up that cron did not like > executing a script, I just put the exact same line from the script > directly into cron.cron is not anti-script as such. I experienced problems using pipes (I guess a pipe spawns off a new thread, that does not

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-21 Thread Stumpy
On 12/20/20 6:54 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote: On 12/17/20 2:32 PM, Stumpy wrote: I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory: /home/bob/qvm-backup --yes

Re: [EXT] Re: [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12/17/20 3:14 PM, Stumpy wrote: On 12/17/20 8:47 AM, haaber wrote: On 12/17/20 2:32 PM, Stumpy wrote: I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory:

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-20 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 12/17/20 2:32 PM, Stumpy wrote: I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory: /home/bob/qvm-backup --yes --verbose --compress --passphrase-file

Re: [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-17 Thread Stumpy
On 12/17/20 8:47 AM, haaber wrote: On 12/17/20 2:32 PM, Stumpy wrote: I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory: /home/bob/qvm-backup --yes --verbose

Re: [qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-17 Thread haaber
On 12/17/20 2:32 PM, Stumpy wrote: I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory: /home/bob/qvm-backup --yes --verbose --compress --passphrase-file

[qubes-users] crontab backups?

2020-12-17 Thread Stumpy
I havent played with crontab in forever, and I cant code at all, but I really wanted to try to automate my backups a wee bit. I made a basic script (qubackup) in the ~/ dom0 directory: /home/bob/qvm-backup --yes --verbose --compress --passphrase-file ~/PASSPHRASE_FILE.txt