ProleWiki:Maintenance/Backups: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:40, 9 August 2022

The crontab

The script is called from the root user's crontab, configured to run at 05:40 UTC.

root@prolewiki:~# crontab -l
40 05 * * * /root/bin/backup.sh | tee -a /var/log/backup.sh.log
35 */1 * * * /root/bin/dfmon.sh | tee /var/log/dfmon.sh.log
root@prolewiki:~# date
Tue 09 Aug 2022 04:32:14 PM UTC

The log

Cron redirects the output of the script to /var/log/backup.sh.log
Zip logs output to /var/log/backup.sh.zip.log

There is currently no log rotation/truncation set up!!

The code

See /root/bin/backup.sh

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-placeholder / work in progress
+== The crontab ==
+The script is called from the root user's crontab, configured to run at 05:40 UTC.
-* ''Comrade [[Comrade:KakumeiAshley|KakumeiAshley]]'' <sup>([[Comradeship:KakumeiAshley|talk]])</sup> 02:09, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
+<pre>root@prolewiki:~# crontab -l
+05 * * * /root/bin/backup.sh | tee -a /var/log/backup.sh.log
+*/1 * * * /root/bin/dfmon.sh | tee /var/log/dfmon.sh.log
+root@prolewiki:~# date
+Tue 09 Aug 2022 04:32:14 PM UTC</pre>
+== The log ==
+* Cron redirects the output of the script to <code>/var/log/backup.sh.log</code>
+* Zip logs output to <code>/var/log/backup.sh.zip.log</code>
-== The crontab ==
+There is currently no log rotation/truncation set up!!
-<pre>root@prolewiki:/etc/cron.daily# crontab -l
-*/10 * * * /root/bin/backup.sh | tee -a /var/log/backup.sh.log</pre>
-== The log ==
-<code>/var/log/backup.sh.log</code>
 == The code ==
-<pre>
- # placeholder
+See <code>/root/bin/backup.sh</code>
- </pre>