[thelist] mysqldump and crontab

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Sat Apr 8 19:12:23 CDT 2006


Did you see your error??

/home/backup/db/`date

You have a back tick in there where it shouldn't be.


Robert Gormley wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a mysqldump job by crontab - problem is, the job 
> works via command line (bash shell on CentOS 4.3), but errors when run 
> by crontab.
> 
> This is the command line:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -A --user=xxx --password=xxx | /usr/bin/bzip2 
> -c > /home/backup/db/`date
>     \+%Y%m%d`.sql.bz2
> 
> The above works fine.
> When run through /etc/crontab:
> 
> 51 6 * * * root /usr/local...
> 
> I get this error from the Cron Daemon:
> 
> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> Anyone able to help?
> 
> Rob
> 




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