Hello everyone!
I’m running a few different services off of my Ubuntu VM on ProxMox, and they’ve all been running great for about 6 months now. However, I’m trying to setup some better backups and such of individual services, and I wrote a bash script to do that for me and delete older backups once I accumulate enough.
All of that works 100% fine. Like absolutely no issues with the script when I run it myself. However, I can not for the life of me get crontab to run it.
If I run sudo ./folder/directory/backup.sh
then everything runs perfectly. However, if I setup my crontab with 0 * * * * ./folder/directory/backup.sh
I get absolutely nothing.
I have also tried setting the crontab with sudo
, sh
, sudo sh
, and both combinations without the dot in front of the path to the shell script.
Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thank you so much for any help
Update: I have edited /etc/crontab
with the following 0 * * * * * root /mnt/nas/freshrss/backups/backup.sh
. After waiting for the crontab to fire off, nothing happened. Still not really sure what’s going on.
As @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev mentioned, you have too many time fields.