Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron

On Nov 22, 2007 2:19 PM, Sorin N. Ciolofan <ciolofan(at)ics(dot)forth(dot)gr> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I've a small bash script backup.sh for creating dumps on my Postgre db:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> time=`date '+%d'-'%m'-'%y'`
> cd /home/swkm/services/test
> pg_dump mydb > mydb_dump_$time.out
>
> I've edited crontab and added a line:
>
> 00 4 * * * swkm /home/swkm/services/test/backup.sh
>
> to execute the backup.sh as user swkm daily at 4 am.
>
> The user swkm is the user I use to create backups manually. The script
> itself is executed fine if run manually but run on cron scheduler I got an
> mydb_dump_$time.out file empty (of 0 kb)
>
> Do you have any idea about what's wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Sorin
>

Hi Sorin,

why don't you add a "MAILTO=<youraddress>" at the start of your
crontab file, so that you can receive a report of the problem?

Regards
Marco

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