Aptik

how to automate aptik backup as cron job

Asked by Ian W Scott

I would like aptik to run (from the command line). So far I have this in my crontab:

 23 20 * * * root cd /home/ian/Dropbox/Apps/aptik/ && aptik --backup-all

My questions are:

1. Since the cli requires that I provide a password for backing up some settings, is there any way to provide the password as a variable in the command so that the script can run unattended?

2. Is there any way to specify the user whose settings are being backed up? Since I'm running aptik as root it won't automatically know which user I want.

Thanks,

Ian

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Ian W Scott (iscott) said : 		#2

I've answered my own question now by looking more carefully at the documentation. I believe the following should work (in my root crontab, not specifying 'root' in the command itself):

 23 20 * * * cd /home/ian/Dropbox/Apps/aptik/ && aptik --backup-all --user <myusername> --password <mypassword> --yes >> ./aptik_cron.log 2>&1

Please let me know if you see any problem here.

Thanks.

Ian

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Ian W Scott (iscott) said : 		#3

Minor fix to my revised cron command.