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Astro
Astro

Reputation: 133

CentOS - Cron job beginner

I'm trying to set a Cron job that will start every day for backup purpose.

I have copied an existing job I saw inside /etc/cron.daily and just edited the file with vim https://www.dropbox.com/s/6edx93pvn7ukiqo/terminal1.png?dl=0

Here is my the backup Cron file I want to execute (just run 2 lines of command, should be root):

  sudo /usr/bin/s3cmd put /var/lib/redis/dump.rdb s3://forumupload/
  sudo /usr/bin/s3cmd put -r /home/maximur1/nodebb/public/uploads s3://forumupload

Both commands run when I run them on the command line, but in the Cron file, they don't get executed each day like they should. Anything I'm missing? https://www.dropbox.com/s/0txc03p4wgc4xub/cronjob.png?dl=0

Upvotes: 0

Views: 287

Answers (1)

GoinOff
GoinOff

Reputation: 1802

For a backup, I would log in as root and use crontab -e to add backup jobs and crontab -l to list them. Any user can setup their own cron job using this utility on CentOS or Redhat system. Look at man crontab for more information.

Upvotes: 1

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