Hi,

No it is not working.

I copied the code in the backup.sh file and put into /etc/cron.hourly
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#!/bin/sh

target=$HOME/org/backupOrg
mkdir -p "$target" && \
        find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.org' ! -path "$target/*" \
        -exec cp -t "$target" {} +

echo "Daily Org Files Backup Successful: $(date)" >> /home/USERNAME/mybackupOrg.log
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And then changed the crontab hourly setting to 26.

/etc/crontab
# m h dom mon dow user    command
26 *    * * *    root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
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Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it that $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ?

Thanks

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Sanjib Sikder
Ph.D. Fellow
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay





On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-17 23:55:12 +0530] wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
>
> mkdir -p /home/USERNAME/org/backup && \
> find $HOME -type f -name '*\.org' ! -path "/home/USERNAME/org/backup/*" \
>     -exec cp -t /home/USERNAME/org/backup/ \{\} \;

How about this:


#!/bin/sh

target=$HOME/org/backup
mkdir -p "$target" && \
        find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.org' ! -path "$target/*" \
        -exec cp -t "$target" {} +