6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
5:56 p.m.
On 3/4/2012 10:25 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
hello list,
I am attempting to backup a centos 5.4 (x86_64) server running mysql with a cron job. Here's how the cron job looks:
[root@cloud:/home/bluethundr/backupdb] #crontab -l
- 3 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump jfwiki >
/home/bluethundr/backupdb/wiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql
You do realize this is going to run 60 times per day, right? (every minute from 3:00 - 3:59)
I think you wanted this:
0 3 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump jfwiki > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/wiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql
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Bowie