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klimsalabimm

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 1

Back In Time Anacron Jobs not working

Hey everyone,

I recently was asked to test the functionality of back in time.
At the company that I work for, we have a few people who use linux and need to have hourly backups of their work made.
Therefor I have installed the application and tried to schedule hourly backups of my home directory to an external hard drive.
Taking snapshots works great, but when it comes to using the anacron jobs (which are not real anacron jobs but a cron job which checks a file with a timestamp if I'm right),
things just don't work anymore. I've set the schedule to 1 hour, but after 3 hours still nothing has happened.
I'm also not able to find any log file to check what actually is going wrong.

crontab -l gives the following output:

#Back In Time system entry, this will be edited by the gui:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime backup-job >/dev/null

Does anybody know, what to do about this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,742

Re: Back In Time Anacron Jobs not working

That crontab needs a line feed to be complete and backintime currently creates an incorrect entry https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/781

Hmm but reading on it should be fixed in the current release

Have you actually enabled a cronjob daemon? Also that you don't find any logfile isn't further surprising, you are piping output to /dev/null, what happens if you remove that?

Last edited by V1del (2018-01-25 16:16:53)