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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi all! :-)
I have a small rsync script to sync my data to a usb-disk. It works
fine, when I start it in console. I get 3 rsync processes (look in
top) and the backup takes ~25 min. But, when I add the script in
cron to start it at 1am at night it takes 7 - 9 hours and I see up to
180 processes. When I look in top I see a hight load of 60 - 80 and 40
- 60 waits. Why? Can someone explain why it takes so long when it
starts with cron?
This is my rsync command: rsync -azc --delete "$QUELLORDNER"
"$ZIELORDNER"
This is the entry in cron (crontab -e): * 2 * * *
/root/backupscript/backup.sh
Data to sync: 18 Gb, 185.000 files.
When I look in the log files I see errors like this:
rsync:
rename "/media/usb/sicherung/var/lib/fail2ban/.fail2ban.sqlite3.JCzY1c"
-> "var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3": No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previousrsync
error:
some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at
main.c(1196) [sender=3.1.2]
directory (2)
Can you help me to solve this problem?
regards,
Hannes Hutmacher
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<pre><tt>Hi,</tt></pre>
<pre><tt>I think your crontab entry is wrong. As shown,</tt></pre>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><pre>* 2 * * * /root/backupscript/backup.sh</pre>it will start the script *once per minute* between 02:00 and 02:59 --
hence the 180 processes that you see! You probably meant
12 2 * * * /root/backupscript/backup.sh
(start once per day at 02:12) or some such thing.
HTH,
Dave
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