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Chuck_383680
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Feb 13, 2019

Crontab for backups - Entries not running

Trying to configure a cron-based daily backup for a vCMP guest, running v13.1.1. As root, using crontab -e, I've added the following lines:   27 8 * * * /usr/bin/tmsh save sys ucs config1.ucs   ...
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    Chuck_383680
    Feb 14, 2019

    Solution Information: The jobs were running, but not at specified times. The root cause was that the guest had not been restarted since the time zone was set, and cron was using the previous time zone. See K14113 for the details on how to restart the cron daemon.

     

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Feb 13, 2019

Here is requested info, shell script runs via commandline. The enclosed crontab file is the default config for a new install, along with the one added backup.sh line. Is there an extra step when modifying the crontab on an F5 v/s a regular linux box?

 

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 166 2019-02-13 13:05 backup.sh

 

backup.sh

 

!/bin/bash

 

/usr/bin/tmsh save sys ucs config1.ucs /usr/bin/scp /var/local/ucs/config1.ucs user@server:/backups/config1.ucs

 

[root@DEV1:Active:In Sync] ~ crontab -l

 

MAILTO=""

 

1-59/10 * * * * /usr/bin/diskmonitor

 

0 */4 * * * /usr/bin/diskwearoutstat

 

12 17 * * * /usr/bin/updatecheck -a

 

12 17 06 * * /usr/bin/phonehome_upload

 

6 * * * * /usr/bin/copy_rrd save

 

06 13 * * * /root/backup.sh