cron not working except as "run now"

[Tim1962]

Hi, I've seen a couple of other reports but not got a workaround here. I want to archive a backup from backup to backup.date. It works if I "run now" but cron doesn't trigger it. Any help appreciated

/bin/mv /mnt/NAS/backup/webserverbackups/webserverbackup /mnt/NAS/backup/webserverbackups/webserverbackup.$(date +"%Y%m%d")

Tried without bin, tried sudo at the start and it just sits there... Ticked all the boxes on the config page...

Cheers Tim

FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201502070132

 

[Johnny Pumphandle]

I have the exact same problem. I set up some shell scripts to run, check the boxes, but nothing runs at the scheduled time. The jobs will run OK when I select the job and then click on 'Run Now'. Running FreeNAS 9.3 STABLE.

Any advise on how to debug?

 

[Tim1962]

This worked instead

cp -R /mnt/NAS/backup/webserverbackup/backups/ /mnt/NAS/backup/webserverbackup/backupsarchive-monthly/

 

[ethereal]

there is a problem with the way that dates are handled -

cp /data/freenas-v1.db /mnt/FreeNAS/ConfigBackups/`date \+%Y\%m\%d`_`cat /etc/version | cut -d'-' -f2`_`cat /etc/version | cut -d'-' -f4`.db

this is one of my scripts - this works using run now and scheduled using the cron - you need to use the \

there is a good discussion here where it is explained very well.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/backup-config-file-every-night-automatically.8237/

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yep, the best thing to do is to put your commands in a script file and execute this file from the CRON, that way you'll not have any problems ;)