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Originally Posted by neocorteqz

Any particular reason it's showing up in the logs 4 times?

10296  	DB Backup  	03:10, 4th Apr 2005  	MySQL Backup was completed successfully with no errors.
10295 	DB Backup 	03:07, 4th Apr 2005 	MySQL Backup was completed successfully with no errors.
10294 	DB Backup 	03:06, 4th Apr 2005 	MySQL Backup was completed successfully with no errors.
10293 	DB Backup 	03:05, 4th Apr 2005 	MySQL Backup was completed successfully with no errors.

Also I have it set to run at 2am sunday, and it's running at 3am Monday morning.

Actually I think this was my fault, It was running more than once, I had set only the 2AM, and not the Minutes.

So it was * 2 * * Sun for the cron instead of 00 2 * * Sun

EDIT:

It's showing the file ownership as not being me. and I can't do a 'chown' on it, because of course I'm not root, but I do own the folder it's in. How do I make the script use me as the file owner?

I'm having a small problem extracting it. I'm using tgz, so I'm extracting like this

tar xvz MM_DD_YY.tar.gz

and it just sits there doing nothing.

That is the right command yes?

Try using

tar xzvf MM_DD_YY.tar.gz it worked fine me in test, if not just change it to use straight .gz encoding.

then just use

gunzip MM_DD_YY.gz



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As for it showing up in your log at multiple times, I can not yet explain that... it has not occured for me on any of the forums I have tried this on, make sure you dont have multiple cron entries for the backup either.

As for the CHMOD problem, I will add into the script to CHMOD the file after it is saved, that should fix the problem hopefully...