crontab -e on doc about autorestic HOT 11 CLOSED

Cron working correctly using

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/autorestic -c /root/.autorestic.yml cron # Every 5 minutes

Closing :)

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Damn, then I need to look into it again. This is weird.

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Oh yes, of course, the docs are wrong, thanks for pointing that out!

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I just checked and even 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/autorestic -c /srv/.autorestic.yml cron actually does not work. 😔 No idea why. I need to fix that

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running /usr/local/bin/autorestic -c /srv/.autorestic.yml cron > /srv/cron.log 2>&1 tells me that restic is not installed. this is quite interesting.

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Is it previous bug of restic not getting auto installed and need manual installing?

Also I found I need to be on as root (or sudo), otherwise I get errors and it gets bit confused choosing between user and root.

I'll check tomorrow if cron jobs have run.

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I just found the issue, yes this was an issue before. I pretty sure this time I got the actual answer.
Basically: Cron does not run in a shell, so all the bin paths are not set and no bins are available as a command. So giving the absolute path for autorstic works, but then it cannot find the actual restic command.

Solution:
set path in the cron file

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"

0 4 * * 1 autorestic -c /srv/.autorestic.yml cron

now we don't even need to pass autorestic as a absolute path.
i will update the docs :)

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Please do let me know it this solves the issue for you :)
You can append a >> /some/log/file.log 2>&1 to check the output of the cron :)

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@jin-park-dev docs are updated https://cupcakearmy.github.io/autorestic/location/cron

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Awesome!

I change crontab with new info. I should find out if backups are happening on 3 machines.

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@jin-park-dev perfect :) If it works feel free to close the issue. Thanks for reporting!

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