Crontab for backups - Entries not running

I have had success on 12.1.1.2 with similar configs.

Thanks 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.

Let me know if that cron.daily works for ya!

Yes, Central. Thanks for looking at it.

I see you are on 13...

There is a cron.daily file you should put the commands in.

Check THIS out

Yeah if that backup.sh file is located in /root/ then it should be working... I see you had it set to run at 1:06pm, are you in central time?

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

Have you tried removing "/usr/bin" and just leaving the command "tmsh save sys ucs config1.ucs"

You could also do something like this:

Make a bash script file in /config for example that says

tmsh save sys ucs 

scp -p /var/local/ucs/ root@:/var/local/ucs/

Then just point the cron to run that.

27 8 * * * /config/

Hope that helps! If it does please up-vote and select this answer, it'd be greatly appreciated!

-Dylan