cron copy on network drives
Jason Tishler
jason@tishler.net
Fri Mar 4 15:17:00 GMT 2005
Paul,
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:36AM -0800, Paul Hodor wrote:
> I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a
> network drive, but I ran into a problem.
>
> This copy command works from the command-line:
> cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 >> log 2>&1
>
> However, if I run it with cron I get the following error:
> cp: cannot stat `//mydrive/myshare/dir1/*': No such file or directory
>
> Do I need to use a different syntax for the path or am I doing
> something else wrong? I am running Windows XP Professional version 2002
> SP1 and cygwin DLL version 1.5.12.
The attached script, remount.sh, may help to solve your problem with a
few changes as appropriate:
1. SSS
2. DDD
3. share
and if you are willing to store your Windows password in a file (i.e.,
~/.passwd).
I use remount.sh at work to remount a network share so I can backup my
local home directory (which is not otherwise backed up) to this share
(which is).
My crontab entry looks like the following:
5 2 * * * remount.sh; backup.sh ...
Jason
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