I never said I knew best. I just mean I am trying to do something VERY basic, and everything is production for me. Webmin is running off a thumb drive on an old Buffalo Terastation I picked up from a university surplus if that gives you an idea. Running a VM may be beyond the hardware capability. I stumbled on Debian and Webmin when I was looking for anything I could install on it since the stock OS was not available.
If I pick up a Linux command or two along the way, that’s fine (and I have), but I honestly don’t care about becoming even a little bit of an expert.
I just want it to work without fussing with it all the time, and the way I know it’s working is if the file shows up on my other NAS the next day. I think a lot of people are in that boat. So, if you could please just help me get it to do what I want it to do as simply as possible, without the hostility and sarcasm, I would greatly appreciate it.
Now, isn’t crontab -e just the same thing as when I click Save and Run Now? The Cron job runs successfully when I do that. It looks like everything is good, and the file ends up on the other NAS. But the trick is making it do that automatically when I don’t press the button.
You do need to know a little about the underlying system so you can trouble shoot problems. Ihave not used windows in this melenium so faced with an error relating to that infrastructure I would research that issue. However you did not supply any details regarding your system until now so everyone was guessing
Yeah 2 GB of RAM, an Atom D2700, and Linux running from a thumb drive on a NAS appliance do not make for a good Virtualbox candidate. But it was dirt cheap, and the power consumption is low. It holds eight hard drives (I only have five), and I spent all of $75 on it.
My Synology NAS has even weaker specs, but it holds four hard drives, and it works. If I could run that OS on my Terastation and maintain all the updates, I would do it in a heartbeat because it’s so intuitive. Things just work out of the box without all of this troubleshooting. It’s a guided experience anyone can understand, unlike every experience I have ever had with regular Linux distros. I’m having a separate Samba permissions issue only on the Terastation that I haven’t even mentioned on this thread because it merits a thread of its own.
I’m sure Synology is just a skin on top of some form of Linux, but they have curated it so it’s dead simple. And sometimes, that’s all you need even though it can’t do everything.
Back on topic, isn’t cronjob -e just the same thing as clicking Save and Run Now? When I do that, the job runs successfully, and the file does appear on the Synology NAS. The trick is getting it to run when I’m not pressing the button.
I noticed my cronlogs were not running, so I enabled that, and we’ll see what I get in the logs now. I’ll check tomorrow.
Yeah, as you can see in the screenshot I sent after that, I tried that immediatelly. But I had to wait for it to actually run overnight to know if it worked. It worked, finally.