Re: when run from cron, sometimes job does not complete, pid not removed

Steve,

Have you checked to ensure that rsync and rsnapshot are not still running
when you see this issue?

If you had an rsnapshot run that took more than 1 hour, you would get
error messages from the following rsnapshot saying the lock file is
still in place.

If that is the problem, you could try running your hourly backups every
2 hours (eg: 6 */2 * * *) or every 4 hours, instead of every 1 hour.

Or if it is only an occasional problem, just ignore it unless it keeps
happening a few times in a row.

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:25:18PM -0500, Steve Wegner wrote:
> 
>    Sorry  for  this  long post, but I am copying my rsnapshot.conf and my
>    log results.
>    Basically  what happens is the sync stops working somewhere during the
>    process,  its  not  consistent, meaning it may back up 2 servers, or 1
>    1/2, or every now and then all of them.
>    If I run rsnapshot from the command line, it always runs correctly, so
>    I am guessing its an issue when run from cron. Any ideas?   Thanks.
>    My cron job looks like:
>    6 * * * * /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot -V hourly

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