Hi Marco! Thank you for the advice. I got: /home/swkm/services/test/backup.sh: line 4: pg_dump: command not found updating: mydb_dump_22-11-07.out (stored 0%) which seems strange -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marco Bizzarri Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:28 PM To: Sorin N. Ciolofan Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron On Nov 22, 2007 2:19 PM, Sorin N. Ciolofan <ciolofan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Marco Bizzarri http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
