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Both the crontab -l's output just that one script below, running at 5
every day. <br>
<br>
I'm not sure why I don't have to put the ole shebang up top. It works
fine without it, I haven't used that in a long time. Mandriva protects
me from having to remember this type of stuff :).<br>
<br>
I think I'll run the script manually now, see how that goes. Then I'll
let it run via cron with the mv commands removed and see if the tarred
files are still 35 gigs or are pared down to 2 gigs.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/07/10 09:50 PM, Bill Traynor wrote:
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On 10-07-12 09:34 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
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tar -czf $(date +%Y%m%d)webserver.tgz /backup2/webserver/<br>
mv $(date +%Y%m%d)webserver.tgz /backup3<br>
tar -czf $(date +%Y%m%d)glenn.tgz /backup2/desktop-glenn/<br>
mv $(date +%Y%m%d)glenn.tgz /backup3<br>
tar -czf $(date +%Y%m%d)barb.tgz /backup2/desktop-barb/<br>
mv $(date +%Y%m%d)barb.tgz /backup3<br>
<br>
<br>
That's run as root every night. The end result should be about 35 gigs
for deskstop-glenn, but it's ending up as about 2gigs, give or take.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Can you check the output of:<br>
$crontab -l<br>
<br>
as well as:<br>
$sudo crontab -l<br>
<br>
Also, shouldn't that script have a #!/bin/bash in it at the top?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4C3BC28D.3080803@insurancesquared.com"
type="cite"><br>
I think tonite I'll comment out the mv command, see what I get.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 12/07/10 09:08 PM, Bill Traynor wrote:
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OK, now that's weird. I just cut and pasted the commands from the
batch file to the command line and ran them directly. Everything
worked. I've got a 35gig file on the destination drive, as expected
and hoped for. Running it via the cron limits the file size to about
2gigs.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Can you post your script? And is the script run as root or your user?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4C3BB96F.1000507@insurancesquared.com"
type="cite"><br>
What the heck difference does it make going via cron vs. manual? A 2
gig limit there doesn't make any sense. I must be missing something.<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 12/07/10 07:30 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTimBm2lzTX8poH3XCoPIfARtCtsLiLgKjZd37P3I@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That
command
worked
with
no
error. (I didn't see the error message
generated by tar because it's happening late at night.) </blockquote>
<div><br>
Capture the output of tar to a file<br>
<br>
tar .... > /logfile.txt 2>&1<br>
<br>
This way you can see the error.<br>
<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But
I'm
doing
it
manually
right now - and it's already at 15gigs. So it's
clearly NOT tar that's the problem. It must be truncating after the
tar happens.<br>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
Or it could be the user, or shell that does the backup that is limited.<br>
<br>
Or cron runs under another user ID or shell?<br>
<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So
that's
narrowing
it
down
to the mv command or the destination drive
(once the files are zipped, I move them to another physical drive. </blockquote>
<div><br>
It would be odd for a mv to just truncate.<br>
<br>
Again, capture the output from that command and see if there are errors.<br>
<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That
gives
me
archives
by
date). I'm guessing that the filesystem type
(linux native) is going to be the ultimate problem here. I'm not sure
why that drive is mounted as type linux native. Something
auto-generated I expect. We'll see soon if that's the problem. </blockquote>
<div><br>
Yeah, that is an odd file system type to have.<br>
<br>
We know it is ext2 or ext3, because the tune2fs command worked on it.<br>
<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(sometimes
the
solutions
just
require
a second set of eyes prodding at it).</blockquote>
<div><br>
Agreed.<br>
<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/07/10 07:06 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">dd
if=/dev/zero
of=/somedir/somefile
bs=1048576
count=2049<br>
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