I get this block of text as one of my accounts during the backup process. All seems fine except for the "Copying crontab..." line. This is new after a CPanel upgrade. Does anyone know if this is something that means things are not being properly backed up? Or if this is something that can be easily corrected? What it means? I am new. Thanks for any help.

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Copying Mail files....Done
Copying proftpd file....Done
Grabbing mysql dbs...Done
Grabbing mysql privs...Done
Copying mailman lists....Done
Copying mailman archives....Done
Copying homedir....Done
Copying cpuser file.......Done
Copying crontab file.......cp: cannot stat `/var/spool/cron/myUser': No such file or directory
Done
Copying quota info.......Done
Storing Subdomains....
Done
Storing Parked Domains....
Done
Storing Addon Domains....
Done
Copying password.......Done
Copying shell.......Done
pkgacctfile is: /backups/cpbackup/daily/myUser.tar.gz
Creating Archive ....Done

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Thanks very much for the answers or at least pointing me to them.

Scott

It looks like they do not have a cron file. Most users do not use crontab anyways and I would bet they do not. Just double check that they have not tried to setup any cron, you might not have even given them acess, because maybe cpanel messed up the file. But anyways its not a critical error as long as they don't have anything running on a cron which like I said it not normal for MOST users.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. It is very helpful.

This extracted text is just one of my users pulled as an example. All accounts being backed up have the same message. I am getting this from my daily email that cp sends.

So here is what I'm getting.... since I don't have any cron jobs set up here it doesn't matter? I am guessing that this is where it would back up any cron jobs that I have associated with any account. Is that right?

thanks again,

Scott

Exactly and since you have no cron jobs its not a problem.

Your good to go

one last question...

I put directories in place to avoid the error message and got this instead:

Copying Mail files....Done
Copying proftpd file....Done
Grabbing mysql dbs...Done
Grabbing mysql privs...Done
Copying mailman lists....Done
Copying mailman archives....Done
Copying homedir....Done
Copying cpuser file.......Done
Copying crontab file.......cp: omitting directory `/var/spool/cron/myAccount'
Done
Copying quota info.......Done
Storing Subdomains....
Done
Storing Parked Domains....
Done
Storing Addon Domains....
Done
Copying password.......Done
Copying shell.......Done
pkgacctfile is: /backups/cpbackup/daily/myAccount.tar.gz
Creating Archive ....Done


Is this because they should not be directories? Are they needing to be another file type? Thank you for your patience.

Scott

Try just using "touch /filename" to create a blank file. It is looking for a filename. Hope this helps