Hi guys,

I've been doing my research, however I couldn't find the answer.

I created a file which basically copy a full directory (700Mb approx.),
then I put all together with tar, compress with gzip, and finally I erase the temporary directory.

I am trying to do all together in a file, but it seems to start with the 2nd operation before finishing the first one. Therefore, sometimes I have partials .tar, unreadable .gz, etc.

Does is make sense? Is there some kind of pause I can use in between commands? Should I create 3 / 4 different enters in the cron tab?
This last option of course that would work, yet doesn't seems to me the better way to do it.

Thanks
Sebas.

Post your file and cron entries.

How about requiring the first set of commands to finish before executing the second?

cp /home/blah /tmp/blah && tar cfvz /backup/`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz /tmp/blah && rm -Rf /tmp/blah

Thanks guys! I don't have my files right here (they are at work).

I'll try it tomorrow and let you know.

I think that rweaver's idea will definitely work!

Cheers,
Sebastian

Hi guys, it's me again... I'm going insane with this, sthing really wired (unless too me) is happening.


This is my crontab so far:
# m h dom mon dow command
0 2 * * * /home/lager/backups/capitalBackUp


Then, this is capitalBackUp executable file:
today=$(date +%Y%m%d)

mkdir /home/lager/backups/$today && mkdir /home/lager/backups/$today/tmp && cp -R /home/lager/applications/capital/* /home/lager/backups/$today/tmp && tar cvfz /home/lager/backups/$today/capital.tar /home/lager/backups/$today/tmp && gzip -9 /home/lager/backups/$today/capital.tar && rm -Rf /home/lager/backups/$today/tmp


Then it turns that if I run the file by myself, I get as result the file capital.gz (~=100Mb), BUT if the file is run by cron, I get as final result a file capital.tar (=9.1Mb --> always same size) and all the files in the directory TMP.

Does it make any sense? Some reasonable explanation?

I hope you can help, coz I have no clue!

Thanks!
Sebas.

Try this: