Chris Allen wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:29:43AM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com
wrote:
>>
>>
>> Interesting! There is a series of log files started called panic, which
>> list a panic because exim.conf file can't be opened, each time at
exactly
>> when my backup is set to run.
>
>
>It could well be that this is cancelling the entire cron job including
>your backup.
Yes. Excellent. Having somewhere for the 'v' option to send the output
to has made the cron task happy.
(As in >tar -cvzf $OF /var/www/ /home/cvs > /tmp/some_logfile 2>&1)
I guess I had two ways of mending this
then, what I did which was to give a file for the v output to go to, or
remove the 'v' option, as someone else suggested.
Now to the task of finding how to do a rotating cron thing that deletes
the backup files when they are more than a week old, and my box backs up
using a simple file at no cost. Unspoken dig at the extremely
expensive backup software our ntserver runs. But it does have a
*lovely* gui. (sarcasm intended).
Thanks to all for help.
Jenny.