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I added the following using "crontab -e":

* 6 * * *  rsync -arthv /content/  > /tmp/db_rsync.log 2>&1

when I do crontab -l I see the line.

am I missing something? It's not running. It does run manually.

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or you can specify the path in crontab as


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The PATH for cron is unlikely to be the same as the one you use interactively. Try changing rsync to /usr/bin/rsync.

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