[SOLVED] "back in time" and crond problem

I'm looking into using "back in time" as a backup tool.
For testing, I've created a simple daily rule - just to see how it goes.
crontab entry (created by BIT) is :
@daily nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1
No backup is run. and I'm geting an error in crontab's log :
failed parsing crontab for user el: writing timestamp requires job nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1 to be named
I'm guessing that the crontab entry is somehow wrong.
Any help will be appreciated.
Ben
Last edited by ben-arch (2010-07-24 03:29:43)

Basicly the initial solution is OK -> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18292
Another solution : cron demands full path for executable programs.
so
(a.) @daily nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1
should be replaced with
(b.) @daily /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1
======
Line (a.) made by 'backintime' worked for me til ~27/5. I found on august that bacups stoped
Each time the frequency of backup is changed in 'backinintime', path is broken (b.) -> (a.).
Last edited by rider (2010-08-12 10:06:48)

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