Category Archives: anacron

Getting to the root of the problem

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Alan German

The previous set of posts have dealt with getting anacron and, in particular, Back In Time to run a daily backup job in the event that the computer is turned off when a scheduled task is set to occur. The … Continue reading →

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User Confusion

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Alan German

Further research on my daily backup failing to run using anacron and Back In Time indicated that the system log file /var/log/syslog would provide some useful information. Since this file is typically quite large and contains thousands of lines of … Continue reading →

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Error Logging

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Alan German

While searching for ways to see if my daily Back In Time backup script was running as a cron job, I came across a web posting that showed how to extend a command line in a script in order to … Continue reading →

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Message in a bottle?

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Alan German

In my latest postings, I have been documenting the failure of anacron and/or Back In Time to run a daily backup of my data partition. My problem with the relevant cron job failing “silently” was that I wasn’t even sure … Continue reading →

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Chronological Inconsistencies

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Alan German

In the previous post, I indicated how to schedule a job using Back In Time at any desired time of day using Gnome’s Scheduled Tasks utility. However, I also noted that the resulting cron job would not run if the … Continue reading →

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Going further back in time

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Alan German

I have never bothered to set automatic (scheduled) backups, relying instead on a number of different backup systems, and fairly frequent backups. I have several images of my entire hard disk, made over a period of weeks and months, and … Continue reading →

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