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turscak
11-29-2005, 01:56 PM
When doing a backup of my site via Cron Jobs in Cpanel, Ive noticed quite often a status emailed from the Cron Daemon such as, "/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Waiting for load to go down to continue".
Is there any particualar time of day that is best to run this type of job?
When doing a backup of my site via Cron Jobs in Cpanel, Ive noticed quite often a status emailed from the Cron Daemon such as, "/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Waiting for load to go down to continue".
Is there any particualar time of day that is best to run this type of job?
Well yes, there is. It will be best to run your backup cron jobs between 03:00 and 06:00 Server time. This is the time with less CPU load.
Also, 'Waiting for load to go down to continue' is a message from a script, that stops the process if the CPU load goes above some level, then resumes normal operations after the load goes down. This means you do not have to worry about much :)
As for the '"/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' message -- that is from the Tar command. It removes the trailing '/' when adding files to archive. This is not an error message, but it's more a notice :)
Kind Regards,
Tom
neednam
12-01-2005, 01:12 PM
Would anyone be as kind to point me to this script? I have yet to find a good backup system, other than bothering the siteground ops.
turscak
12-02-2005, 07:02 AM
Well yes, there is. It will be best to run your backup cron jobs between 03:00 and 06:00 Server time. This is the time with less CPU load.
Also, 'Waiting for load to go down to continue' is a message from a script, that stops the process if the CPU load goes above some level, then resumes normal operations after the load goes down. This means you do not have to worry about much :)
As for the '"/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' message -- that is from the Tar command. It removes the trailing '/' when adding files to archive. This is not an error message, but it's more a notice :)
Kind Regards,
Tom
Thanks, Tom. I take it Server Time is GMT -6 . If so, I change my Job Times to begin at 0315 starting tomorrow. Thanks again for your help!
Best Regards,
Frank Turscak
thesigna
12-02-2005, 07:45 PM
I want to add a cron job to process my phplist emails, I had one but when I upgraded from 2.8 to 2.10 and it broke. The one on the phplist support site is way too confusing, can someone tell me or at least dumb down one?
Could you please post the cron job from the phplist website, so I can take a look?