Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and crontab

[edgar . soldin]

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.

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