From e60e65423eb25b0a896424628bee32f1ca817698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Johnson Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:15:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update to provide example of using cron primer file. --- ec2-automate-backup/README.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/ec2-automate-backup/README.txt b/ec2-automate-backup/README.txt index 9666ca2..753093c 100644 --- a/ec2-automate-backup/README.txt +++ b/ec2-automate-backup/README.txt @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ ec2-automate-backup requires one of the following two parameters be provided: * To backup a selected group of EBS volumes on a daily and/or monthly schedule tag each volume you wish to backup with the tag "Backup-Daily=true" and/or "Backup-Monthly=true" and run ec2-automate-backup using cron as follows: - 0 0 * * 0 ec2-user /home/ec2-user/ec2-automate-backup.sh -s tag -t "Backup-Daily=true" - 0 0 1 * * ec2-user /home/ec2-user/ec2-automate-backup.sh -s tag -t "Backup-Monthly=true" +* To perform daily backup using cron and to load environment configuration with a "cron-primer" file: +- 0 0 * * 0 ec2-user /home/ec2-user/ec2-automate-backup.sh -c /home/ec2-user/cron-primer.sh -s tag -t "Backup=True" # # Additional Information: #