[rdiff-backup-users] Help with rdiff-backup and cron

[Chris Young]

I am having trouble getting rdiff-backup to run as a cron job.

I'm not sure if I need to change the format of my cron command. The
command shown works fine from the command line.

Here is my cron entry:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.17874 installed on Wed Jan 28 17:56:25 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
$)
0       0      *       *       *       rdiff-backup -v6
--exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files
address@hidden::/ /home/backup/domain/backup

I checked the log file for cron and found this:

Jan 28 18:00:00 localhost CROND[17880]: (root) CMD (rdiff-backup -v6
--exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files
address@hidden::/ /home/backup/domain/backup)

I am unfamiliar with cron errors but that doesn't look like one to me.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks.

Chris Young

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