Fruitless attempt to re-set-up Cron-scheduled backups
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:06 am
Hello again
Having reactivated one of my existing Cron jobs and deleted then replaced from scratch the other, I hoped all would be plain-sailing from then on. I should have known better :sob
In the cronjobs folder four instances of Rsync_USB_backup from My_Movies and one instance from Recorded_TV are recorded as having taken place over the past two days. Despite that, when I go into the backup folders residing on the external USB drive neither of them bears more than a passing resemblance to the current status of their respective source folders; for instance, neither has a file of more recent date than 2015!
In other words, I've failed completely to achieve what I set out to do, yet (evidently) I succeeded two years ago. I've no idea where I've gone wrong this time and so don't know how to put it right.
Here are the two job lines
Having reactivated one of my existing Cron jobs and deleted then replaced from scratch the other, I hoped all would be plain-sailing from then on. I should have known better :sob
In the cronjobs folder four instances of Rsync_USB_backup from My_Movies and one instance from Recorded_TV are recorded as having taken place over the past two days. Despite that, when I go into the backup folders residing on the external USB drive neither of them bears more than a passing resemblance to the current status of their respective source folders; for instance, neither has a file of more recent date than 2015!
In other words, I've failed completely to achieve what I set out to do, yet (evidently) I succeeded two years ago. I've no idea where I've gone wrong this time and so don't know how to put it right.
Here are the two job lines
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* 16 */4 * * /usr/bin/php '/share/1000/cronjobs/Rsync_USB-NAS_backup_1.from.Recorded_TV_gWUIj6.php' >>/share/1000/cronjobs/cron.log
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* 15 */3 * * /usr/bin/php '/share/1000/cronjobs/Rsync_USB-NAS_backup_1.from.My_Movies_e4Cyvb.php' >>/share/1000/cronjobs/cron.log