On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Ajeesh Kannan <ajeeshbkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my backup script is working when this run manually and in cron jobs. But
> the script is not taking mysql dump when this is added in /etc/cron.hourly
>
put your own one line cron file in /etc/cron.d (read 'man 5 crontab')
to call your script.
> ++++++
> while read x ; do
> mysqldump ${x} > "/home/backup/TEST/${x}_`date +%d-%m-%Y`.sql"
> if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]
string comparison should be quoted, numeric comparison should be unquoted
e.g if [ $? -eq 0 ]
> echo "$x backup is OK" >> $STATUSFILE
> else
> echo "##### WARNING: ERROR ##### $x backup failed" >> $STATUSFILE
> fi
> done</etc/cron.hourly/dbfile
Why is the content of the 'dbfile' and why have put it in /etc/cron.hourly?
Alternately, you can declare a local variable "x=db1 db2 db3 dnN" in
the script itself and use
the "for n in ${x}; do blah blah; done"
> ++++++++++
>
> Also tried with mysqldump ${x} > /home/backup/TEST/${x}_`date +%d-%m-%Y`.sql
The symbol '%' has a special meaning to cron so you need to escape it
i.e use \. (RTFM 'man 5 crontab').
BTW a lot of people trip on "%" symbol in cron tab entries.
HTH
-- Arun
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