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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
CirrusI'm still looking into this, but the cron job did run, just not at the desired time. I'm going to go back through the configs because this does look like a timezone setting issue, just not the normal use of UTC. Here are the details:
From Crontab:
29 15 * * * /root/backup.sh
Timestamp from file:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3.5M 2019-02-13 17:29 config-dev1.ucs
Time Information from Guest:
[root@DEV1:Active:In Sync] ucs date
Thu Feb 14 08:22:44 CST 2019
Time Server Sync Information:
[root@DEV1:Active:In Sync] ucs ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*TIME1 129.6.15.28 2 u 962 1024 377 0.335 0.048 0.708
+TIME2 129.6.15.28 2 u 73 1024 377 0.346 -0.005 0.102