On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 18:35 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 2020-06-21 18:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > 0 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/dock up && /usr/bin/borgmatic ; /usr/local/bin/dock down > > I would suggest to avoid multiple commands on a cron entry, > better to have a simple /usr/local/bin/do_backup with the three commands inside. > > There you can log with "date" commands the execution the starting of each of the part > > and probably discover that the up part is working fine > > (md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors) > > then the backup script is failing (or not starting) and the down part is having problems, I'll consider that, but the script itself is already logging its actions. > apparently shutting down disks while md is still active. > Cron jobs have often problems with missing env variables (e.g. simplified PATH) > , > those can also be fixed if you go the do_backup approach. The script is called with a full path, so I don't think that's it, but I guess I'll try it anyway. Thanks for the feedback. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx