Proxmox Backup Client Schedule

[Hunv]

Hi,

I am currently fighting since hours with configuring a cron job to perform the backup on a schedule for a physical server I have using the Proxmox backup client.
I have a Debian system and perform the following as root. What I did so far:
I used crontab -e to schedule a hourly backup using the following line:

28 * * * * /etc/profile.d/pbs_env.sh; /usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup webserver.pxar:/ --repository backupuser@pbs@192.168.1.10:BackupDisk

the content of the pbs_env.sh (it is executable) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
export PBS_PASSWORD="myPassword"
export PBS_FINGERPRINT="myFingerprint"

This does not work. The syslog says the command is executed, but nothing happens. If I put a > ~/mylog1.txt and ~/mylog2.txt to the end of both commands of the line, the files are created but stay empty.
If I run the command manually it works of cause.

After the crontab -e didn't worked, I tried it by creating a file at /etc/cron.d with the following content:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

3 * * * * root /etc/profile.d/pbs_env.sh && /usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup webserver.pxar:/ --repository backupuser@pbs@192.168.1.10:BackupDisk

This also don't work.
Now I don't know any more what I can do. I also find no tutorials/examples/documentation how it is recommended to setup a scheduled backup using the proxmox backup client.

 

[Dunuin]

Maybe the environment variables won't work when running hte script using cron? I personally made a bash script that got the...

export PBS_PASSWORD="myPassword"
export PBS_FINGERPRINT="myFingerprint"

...first and then the ...

/usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup webserver.pxar:/ --repository backupuser@pbs@192.168.1.10:BackupDisk

...and my crontab then runs this bash script and this works fine.

 

[Hunv]

Maybe the environment variables won't work when running hte script using cron? I personally made a bash script that got the...

export PBS_PASSWORD="myPassword"
export PBS_FINGERPRINT="myFingerprint"

...first and then the ...

/usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup webserver.pxar:/ --repository backupuser@pbs@192.168.1.10:BackupDisk

...and my crontab then runs this bash script and this works fine.

Thanks for your input. That actually works.
For all noobs, I did the following:

- Logged in as root
- Created at file via nano /root/backup.sh
- Pasted the following content:

#!/bin/sh
export PBS_PASSWORD="myPassword"
export PBS_FINGERPRINT="myFingerprint"

/usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup webserver.pxar:/ --repository backupuser@pbs@192.168.1.10:BackupDisk

- Made the file executeable via

chmod +x /root/backup.sh

- Checked that the backup performs by running /root/backup.sh
- ran "crontab -e"
- added

28 * * * * /root/backup.sh

to run the backup every hour at minute 28.
- Done