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Can't get crontab to run backup script properly
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Looking at all the replies here I don't see anyone asking what's in your script. Is everything in the script pointing to full folder names?
Try adding this at the end of the entry:
1>/home/{username}/crontabscript.out 2>/home/{username}/crontabscript.err
Replace {username} with your login id. See what you get in those files when it runs. That might give you some better clues as to what's going on.