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Chuck_383680
Cirrus
CirrusCrontab 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 ...
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.
Chuck_383680Cirrus
CirrusThanks for the link.
After reading through the anacron behavior, using cron.daily isn't going to work for us. I need this backup to reach our centralized repository prior to an archival job that runs later in the night.
I went through all of the files within /etc/cron.*, none of those files are running the jobs listed within the root crontab, so I get the feeling I'm missing something between editing the crontab and implementing the crontab.
At this point, I may spin up a 13.0 or 12.x guest to see if the behavior exists there, as well.