Cron scheduled backups not running

[mediagiant]

Hello. I have a scheduled cron backup job from my Webmin NAS to my adjacent Synology NAS. The problem is, it’s not running as scheduled. I can run it manually, and the backup will work fine, but we all know it’s far better to have backups running automatically.

I have the cron job scheduled to run daily at midnight, as you can see in the attached screenshot. But it’s not actually running, and I’m not sure what I need to change.

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Debian 11
Webmin version	2.105

[Stegan]

are you actually saving it? does it get listed?

[mediagiant]

Yes, it’s saved. I didn’t change anything before opening this screen.

[Stegan]

have you tried stopping the Cron Deamon then restarting it?

[mediagiant]

I just did that…let’s see if it works. Fingers crossed!

[Joe]

That’s not necessary.

[Stegan]

Sorry!
didn’t seem to be any other ideas being offered.

though I did wonder if there was an update pending

[mediagiant]

Thanks, but that did not solve it either.

[shoulders]

In that image, it looks like the cron is set to run every minute. Maybe that is the issue.

[Joe]

No, “Simple schedule Daily” is selected.