spacemonkey Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 I have a server running Server 8.0v2 Advanced where I have had the schedule running hourly backups 24/7 followed by a 15-minute offset cronned shell script to backup the hourly backups to a different server in zipped form. However, yesterday, I found that the schedule which was running fine up until 2 days ago had mysteriously switched to running only at 9:00pm and then again at 10:00pm before jumping ahead to 9:00pm the following day (as shown by the event.log)!! As a result, practically a day's worth of data was lost when I had to remotely transfer the data to a developer for overnight amendments - a lesson not to be forgotten! I was wondering if there is any way to run a shell script to achieve what FileMaker scheduler is attempting to do because I feel that cron is far more reliable and can't afford for any further data losses on this scale. Any assistance/thoughts would be gratefully appreciated. Dene Stringfellow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Decorte Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Absolutely. FMS has a command line you can call from a shell script to initiate a backup. Check the manual for a full list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemonkey Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 Brilliant, thanks for that. Hopefully, I can bypass the schedule as it has the new hourly schedule has screwed up again! Stopped running after 11:00pm last night and the next scheduled backup jumped to 11:00am this morning and upon completion at 11:00am today the next scheduled backup has jumped to 12:00pm tonight. Bizarre! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemonkey Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 I've done a couple of tests using the command line tool. I've tried the following: From the command lines: fmsadmin BACKUP fmsadmin BACKUP -d /Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/ fmsadmin BACKUP -d /Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/ /Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups/ both commands run fine. However, when I save the commands as a shell script, run chown 755 to allow read and execute permissions to everyone, run various chown and chgrp to change the owner and group of the shell script I get the following error: Error: 20405 Does anyone have any idea what this error might be? And how I can get the script to run? I am running other executable scripts without any problem. Is this just an fmsadmin commandline issue? Dene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies PMC Posted February 27, 2006 Newbies Share Posted February 27, 2006 I also get this error and I don't know what it means either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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