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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and crontab
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and crontab |
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Sun, 8 Nov 2020 14:12:42 +0100 |
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unless they are user cronjobs of course ;) set up via 'crontab -e' in user
context.
but Ken is right. often users edit crontabs under /etc and the wonder why
duplicity using key enc does not work while it did in their user's shell. the
above is a common pitfall.
.ede/duply.net
On 06.11.2020 16:33, Kenneth Loafman via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> One other thing to check: Cron jobs run as root by default. You'll need to
> check that duplicity has access to ~root/.gnupg and that your keys are there.
>
> ...Ken
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 6:19 AM edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk
> <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org <mailto:duplicity-talk@nongnu.org>> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/2020 12:45, Giuliano Franchetti via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > Hello to all,
> >
> > I have made a shell script to perform a backup with duplicity, the
> script works well if I run it from xterm.
> > However, when I try to run the script with cron for automatising the
> backup something does not work
> > with duplicity. I looked in the web but it is not clear what is the way
> out.
> >
> > Has anyone succeeded to do this?
>
> indeed some did :) i can give you some hints.
>
> there's probably an error in your /var/log/messages or syslog. check that.
>
> did you provide a proper PATH variable in your crontab? most crons have
> only a limited path set initially.
>
> ordinary cron daemons support MAILTO so any output is send via mail too
> the given address. you might want to set set for debugging or generally.
>
> ..ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
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