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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Crontab compressed version Post 302960791 by bakunin on Thursday 19th of November 2015 03:30:48 PM
Old 11-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by zekeboy
ok so: 20 20 * * * sudo tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz /home/user1

and backup will be in /root right ?
probably, maybe, ... i don't know. Most probably there will be no backup at all, just a mail to root about a command not found. Do i need to repeat what i said about using full pathes three times too before you take the suggestion into consideration as with the space between the asterisks?

The command will be executed every day at 20:20 but "sudo" will probably be not found at all, as well as "tar".

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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