Help to setup cronjob with enviroment variables

[augustocarmo]

Hello, I started to use VestaCP a few weeks now, and I'm just testing and making configurations before migrate my websites to a VPS.

Righ now I'm trying to setup an automated backup using restic and cron.
I installed restic and configure it with success in my server, but all the configuration was done using the root user, not the admin user. And I think that's was part of the problem.

When I configured using the root I added the environment variables to this file:

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/root/.bash_profile

and I can run this command:

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restic backup /home --exclude /home/backup

My first attempt was to just add a cron using the VestaCP panel to run this command.



I can see in the log using cat /var/log/cron that the cron ran but when use the restic snapshot to list the history of backups no new snapshot is created.

Than I started to see some topics in the forum and I tried to run the same command using the admin user, and to resume I can run via ssh this command using the admin user with partial success:

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restic backup /home --exclude /home/backup

I get two errors:

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error: Open: open /home/admin/conf/dns: permission denied
error: Open: open /home/admin/conf/web: permission denied

I tried to add a cron with this command but it didn't work.

When I try to run this command:

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sudo restic backup /home --exclude /home/backup

The password is asked.

I really tried to fix that but is beyond my knowledge, and I would appreciate some help.

Thanks

[rhyker2u]

Didn't know it was even possible to setup cronjobs from Vesta CP. However have you tried to execute:

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crontab -e

from ssh cli to see if it works then? And if not, to execute them as 'root' cronjobs instead of 'admin' user ?

[maman]

Try this

echo 'yourpassword' | sudo restic backup /home --exclude /home/backup

[augustocarmo]

I added the cronjob using ssh and the root user.
I also added the environment variables in my script, that way the variables are always set before run the script.