On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 14:12 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Following up on a old question of mine about daily backup tools I did > follow the advice and am using borg successfully. So thank you for > that: > very easy to setup and works great. > > However wanting to do that daily automatically from my laptop to a > local > network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10 minutes > after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to > anacron. > > Installed it, set up the anacron job and the problems arrived. > Initially > tried to run it as my user but that didn't work. > > @daily 10 daily-backup su fred -c > "/home/fred/dao2/tech/daily.sh" > > Simplified the command to run as root but that also didn't work. It > seems anacron doesn't run. > > @daily 10 daily-backup /home/fred/dao2/tech/daily.sh > > > Finally found one or two post saying you can add a cron job that runs > hourly and launch the anacron tasks. > > I have this in my user crontab: > > @hourly /usr/sbin/anacron -s -t $HOME/.anacron/etc/anacrontab -S > $HOME/.anacron/spool > > This unfortunately get the task run randomly and definitely not once > per > day. I sometimes get it to run 3 or 4 times in the same day while > sometimes I feel it's does not run and so I run it manually. > > So my question is how do I get anacron "fixed" and running once > daily?
Anacron probably isn't the right tool for this, since you don't want to run the backup at a fixed time but "10 minutes after I switch on the PC and only once per day". Unless you always switch on the PC at the same time, you may be better triggering the job at boot time. You can trigger something at boot by using the "@reboot" keyword (crontab(5)). You'll want to run a script that a) checks if backup has already run, and b) waits 10 minutes before running it. You can check if it has run by adding a hook to your backup script that just logs the last time it finished successfully. BTW, I recommend using borgmatic for regular borg runs, but you still have to take care of the timing yourself. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
