Hi,
On 2020-04-07 14:07, Terry Barnaby wrote:
I have a simple backup system that starts off a backup once per night during the weekdays. There is a crontab file in /etc/cron.d with the following entries:
################################################################################
# Beam Bbackup cron setup Backup to ...
################################################################################
#
# Min Hour Day Month WeekDay
# Perform incremental backup to every work day
01 23 * * 1 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam
01 23 * * 2 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam
01 23 * * 3 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam
01 23 * * 4 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam
01 23 * * 5 root /src/bbackup/bbackup-beam
This system has been in use for 10 years or more on various Fedora versions. However about 18 months ago I have seen a problem where cron will start two backups with identical start times occasionally.
I have had to add a file lock system in the bbackup-beam to cope with this.
Any idea on why cron might start the same job off twice at the same time ? Could there be a time change issue with chronyd ?
Are you sure that the jobs you saw started *twice*...?
If one of the jobs would not finish till next launch time, maybe just
hanging around due to some error, you'll end up with multiple jobs out
there, despite the fact that they started days apart.
Another possible issue might be the daylight saving time. If you're using
a non-UTC timezone, there are datetimes that repeat or that are missing.
23:01 seems not to be among them, but what do I know...
Same thing might happen if there are periodical bigger time adjustements
(NTP, manual, ...).
If it happens more than once that the system time is 23:01, launching the
script each time is not only legit, but actually mandatory.
Best regards,
Iosif Fettich
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