beckibackup

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Use as Cronjob

By default beckibackup writes informative messages to stdout (can be switched off) and error messages to stderr. Therefore it is advisable to redirect the stdout to some logfile and not to redirect stderr. This way, the owner of the cronjob (usually root for machine backups) gets an email from crond only if an error occurs.

The following is tailored towards Slackware Linux, but on other system the useage is similar:

Create the file /etc/cron.daily/backup with the following content and make it runnable:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/beckibackup 1>/root/.beckibackup/log

Check if cron.daily runns at the right time with crontab -l and ajust it if necessary.
If you want to have the error messages emailed to you, remove the redirection of stderr in /usr/bin/run-parts:

    echo "$SCRIPT:"
    echo
    $SCRIPT 2>&1
    echo

    echo "$SCRIPT:"
    echo
    $SCRIPT
    echo