How to start selim13/automysqlbackup as a daemon?

[janmottl]

How to start selim13/automysqlbackup as a daemon?

I am new in Docker.

This works fine but requires opened terminal:
sudo docker run
--name automysqlbackup
--network my-network
-v '/var/xxxxxxxx/backup/docker:/backup'
-e DBHOST=mariadb
-e DBNAMES=all
-e USERNAME=root
-e PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx
-e DBNAMES=all
-e CRON_SCHEDULE="10 06 * * *"
selim13/automysqlbackup:2.6-7-debian

I tried to start it as daemon (-d --restart unless-stopped) but it doesn't work unfortunatelly:
sudo docker run
--name automysqlbackup
--network my-network
-v '/var/xxxxxxxx/backup/docker:/backup'
-e DBHOST=mariadb
-e DBNAMES=all
-e USERNAME=root
-e PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx
-e DBNAMES=all
-e CRON_SCHEDULE="10 06 * * *"
-d --restart unless-stopped
selim13/automysqlbackup:2.6-7-debian

What do I wrong? Thanks

[selim13]

Hello!
It seems you are doing everything right. I've just copy-pasted your command and docker successfully launched detached container (-d) that survived docker daemon restart (--restart unless-stopped).

What makes you think that something is wrong?

[janmottl]

Hi Dmitry,
thanks for immediate answer.
yes, container starts correctly with -d. But backup is not started at time specified in -e CRON_SCHEDULE="10 06 * * *".
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and Docker 19.03.5
I'm sorry for incomplete specification.
Jan

[selim13]

There should not be any difference for cron between starting container in foreground or detached mode.
Try passing CRON_SCHEDULE="* * * * *" to run the automysqlbackup cron job every minute to see whether backups are working.

Also it may be possible that container uses UTC timezone, so 10 06 * * * will be in UTC rather than your local timezone. But that's only guessing.

[janmottl]

CRON_SCHEDULE="* * * * *" runs correctly.
You are right that it is necessary specify UTC time. Our is +1 hour.

The problem was in my wrong hour specification. Leading zero in hour makes troubles. I should use CRON_SCHEDULE="10 6 * * *" instead of CRON_SCHEDULE="10 06 * * *".

Many thanks for help. Noe it runs :)