[Koha] Hourly backup

[Alvaro Cornejo]

Hi Raphael,

You might try to replace xy command by gzip.

For some unknown reason, my backups never worked with xz. Maybe database
size? We have 150K records.

Regards,

Alvaro
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Le sam. 6 févr. 2021 à 09:47, Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de> a
écrit :

> Hi Raphael,
>
> you could try running the command manually to see if there are any
> errors first and try to see if that gives you a clue.
>
> Also, this doesn't look like you are using the standard tools to backup
> Koha that are part of the packages. You can see the standard setup in
> the last line here:
>
>
> https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/branch/master/debian/koha-common.cron.daily#L30
>
> Some more information can be found here:
>
>
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages#koha-run-backups
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> On 05.02.21 00:53, Raphael Meyer wrote:
> > I used this command:
> >
> > */60 * * * * mysqldump -ukoha_library -p... Koha_library | xz >
> /home/koha/backup/koha_library.sql.xz
> >
> > Last it worked was on Sunday March 31 at 6 am my time. Has not worked
> since.
> >
> On 04.02.21 17:10, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Raphael Meyer <rpm143 at live.com> wrote:
> >> The hourly back up has stopped working on my machine. Have Ubuntu 20
> >> and Koha 20. I tried the Crontab -e but it did not work either. I
> >> have no idea how I lost it but would like to put it back.
> > Br Raphael
> >
> > Which instructions did you use to set it up?
> >
> > When did you last know it worked and can you find any messages in any
> > logs from that time?
> >
> > Do you still have some package called something like "cron" installed
> > on there? Maybe systemd-cron?
> >
> > Hope that helps,
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