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<div><font style="" face="Courier New">OK I have a pair of </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_0">Drobo FS NAS devices</span></font><font style="" face="Courier New">.</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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Kernel :Linux Drobo-FS </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_1">2.6.22</span></font><font style="" face="Courier New">.18</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
BusyBox v1.14.2 (2009-07-29 17:47:47 PDT) multi-call binary</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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One is the </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_2">file server</span></font><font style="" face="Courier New">,
the other is the backup device. I can manually rsync between the two
via the command line during a ssh session to the backup device. It
works if I call the rsync command directly or via the </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_3">shell script</span></font><font style="" face="Courier New"> that calls the rsync command.</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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crond is not enabled by default and there is no official DroboApp
(marketing name for software plugin) to enable the service. This blog
post outlines how to </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
enable crond: </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><a href="http://blog.troyastle.com/2010/06/activate-cron-daemon-on-drobofs.html" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_4">http://blog.troyastle.com/2010/06/activate-cron-daemon-on-drobofs.html</span></a></font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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crond is running (ps | grep crond) and I've tested using the following </font><font style="" face="Courier New"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306949613_5">cron job</span></font><font style="" face="Courier New">: 0,15,30,45 * * * * date > /path/to/test.txt</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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The following job does get called: 0 * * * * /path/to/backup.sh >
/path/to/output.log (alternate definition, 0 * * * * /bin/sh
/path/to/backup.sh > /path/to/output.log)</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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However, the rsync command does not run. I only get the "BEGIN" and
"END" messages I added in the output file. Not even an error message.
Calling the script from the command line produces the full output,
starting with "receiving incremental file list". I suspect that the
cron environment is missing something (or I am), but adding the -l to
the call (/bin/sh -l /root/backup.sh) has no effect.</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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Any ideas?</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">Here's the executable script with IP removed:</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">#!/bin/sh</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo '****************************************'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo 'BEGIN BACKUP'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">date</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo '****************************************'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New"># ssh uses public/private key authentication</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/rsync/rsync -avz -e 'ssh -i /root/rsync-key' </font><font style="" face="Courier New">--rsync-path=/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/rsync/rsync </font><font style="" face="Courier New">root@0.0.0.0:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares /mnt/DroboFS/</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo '****************************************'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo 'END BACKUP'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">date</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">echo '****************************************'</font><font style="" face="Courier New"><br></font><font style="" face="Courier New">
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