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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check mail backup cron job Post 302500367 by methyl on Monday 28th of February 2011 10:45:07 AM
Old 02-28-2011
Quote:
0 3 * * 0 if cd /Volumes/Files_Backup_1;then /usr/sbin/mailbfr -b /Volumes/Files_Backup_1/mail/bak --mode rotate; fi
Syntax looks ok, but the following syntax would be more robust if the directory might not be there:
Code:
0 3 * * 0 [ -d /Volumes/Files_Backup_1 ] && cd /Volumes/Files_Backup_1 &&  /usr/sbin/mailbfr -b /Volumes/Files_Backup_1/mail/bak --mode rotate

Personally I'd put the whole lot in a script and run the script from cron.
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NAME

       lvscan - scan (all disks) for Logical Volumes

SYNOPSIS

       lvscan [-a|--all] [-b|--blockdevice] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [-P|--partial] [-v|--verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       lvscan  scans all known volume groups or all supported LVM block devices in the system for defined Logical Volumes.  The output consists of
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