Article 6FCDG Cron backup script

Cron backup script

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alex4buba
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Hello friends,

My desktop PC died and I installed KDE Plasma 5.27 on a new HP Probook laptop, all goes well, but my backup script doesn't.

Below is the script followed by the error on trying to execute it

Code:#!/bin/bash
#To wake up the external drive
#partprobe /media/alexe/Elements

#get day of week
dow=$(/usr/bin/date "+%a")

# convert DOW to lower case i.e. Mon to mon
ldow=${dow,,}

/usr/bin/rsync -a /home/alexe/afolders/ /media/alexe/Elements/$ldow/
astatus=$?
/usr/bin/rsync -a /home/alexe/Desktop /media/alexe/Elements/$ldow/
dstatus=$?

[ $astatus -eq 0 ] && echo "$(date) My_Stuff rsync completed successfully" >> /home/alexe/Desktop/dailyBackup.txt || echo "$(date) My_Stuff rsync failed" >> /home/alexe/Desktop/dailyBackup.txt

[ $dstatus -eq 0 ] && echo "$(date) Desktop rsync completed successfully" >> /home/alexe/Desktop/dailyBackup.txt || echo "$(date) Desktop rsync failed" >> /home/alexe/Desktop/dailyBackup.txtCode:bash anajob.sh
rsync: [Receiver] mkdir "/media/Elements/sat" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(791) [Receiver=3.2.7]
rsync: [Receiver] mkdir "/media/Elements/sat" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(791) [Receiver=3.2.7]But, the folder "sat" does exist on the external drive named "Elements"

Tanks to whoever can help me
Alex
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