rsync - Jan 2009 - Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel.
7.0

I am following process described here for rsync :
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html

I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly.
This is one example  -  the daily  (/backup is a seperate physical drive) :

#daily backup script
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Access/ /backup/daily/Access
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Templates/ /backup/daily/Templates
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/QBdata/ /backup/daily/QBdata
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception1/ /backup/daily/reception1
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception2/ /backup/daily/reception2
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/reception3/ /backup/daily/reception3
rsync -a --delete /usr/home/data/Files/ /backup/daily/Files

All files created where chmod'd with +x, then I test the scripts by running
them manually and all three, daily, weekly & monthly work fine.

Final step, I add to root crontab, by using :

crontab -e 

I added following lines :

1       23       30      *       *       /usr/local/sbin/backup/monthly
1       21       *       *       0       /usr/local/sbin/backup/weekly
1       23       *       *       1-5     /usr/local/sbin/backup/daily

crontab -l shows all is OK as well.

But the scheduled backups never happen. I must be doing something wrong, but
can't figure out what.

All help would be gratefully appreciated. Not sure if this is an rsync issue or
a FreeBSD / Crontab issue.

Thank you,

Darren

drcubi@yahoo.com wrote:
> But the scheduled backups never happen. I must be doing something wrong,
but can't figure out what.
> 
> All help would be gratefully appreciated. Not sure if this is an rsync
issue or a FreeBSD / Crontab issue.
> 
Cron might be ignoring $PATH, so the scripts called don't know where 
rsync is. Just a guess.

drcubi@yahoo.com wrote:
> But the scheduled backups never happen. I must be doing something wrong,
but can't figure out what.
If you haven't already, check root's inbox to see if there is any output
from the cron jobs. If not, it's likely a problem with your crontab.

Also, try replacing 'rsync' in your backup scripts with the full path to
rsync; cron provides only a very limited set of environment variables,
and $PATH might not include rsync.