[Dirvish] Backup multiple server at the same time

[Jon Radel]

Jarkko Ypäjä wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I still seem to have some problems running backup from multipe servers
> at once.

Actually it sounds more like you have a problem running dirvish from
cron, which is a somewhat different problem.

> 
> and here's my crontab -e
> 10      22      * * * dirvish-expire --vault server1/backupu/root
> 30      22      * * * dirvish-expire --vault server1/root
> 45      22      * * * dirvish-expire --vault server2/backupu/root
> 0      23      * * * dirvish-expire --vault server2/root
> 0     1      * * * dirvish --vault server2/backupu/root
> 0    1      * * * dirvish --vault server1/backupu/root
> 0       3     * * * dirvish --vault server2/root
> 0       4      * * * dirvish --vault server1/root
> 
> The default.conf should be correct.
> 
> Now, for some reason when I do the command manually(for example dirvish
> --vault server1/backupu/root it starts running without any problems. For
> some reason the command executed via cron does not start at all. I can
> see from the syslog that the command has been started but it doesn't
> keep running. 


What output do you get from the dirvish jobs run from cron?

Or you could just skip ahead :-) and make sure that the value of PATH
when you do your manual tests matches the value of PATH used by cron.  I
strongly suspect you'll see the same error.  Then either wrap dirvish in
a shell script which sets PATH (you're probably missing /usr/local/sbin)
or set it in your crontab, mileage depending on what else you have in
your crontab, etc., etc.

--Jon Radel

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