Monday, July 02, 2018

Re: dump/restore and crontab(5)

On Mon, July 2, 2018 8:14 am, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> Having clobbered my crontab (5) file in error (-r and -e are close) I
> merrily went to my level 0 dump to restore it. It's present on the dump
> (which is to file) but the restored file is zero bytes.
>
> Should I have run those dumps manually instead of as cron jobs?
>
> --
>
> Edward Ahlsen-Girard
> Ft Walton Beach, FL
>

I'd have to look later to see if my dumps are coreectly grabbing the
crontabs. But first, try looking in /var/backups either on disk, or in
your dump.

Tim.

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