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This command:
/usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table -u myuser -pmypass mydb > "/home/myuser/dbBackups/"`date +%Y%m%d`".sql"
works fine from the command line but whenb cron runs it I get
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
The command is all on one line in the crontab as well so I’m confused by the line 0 and line 1 references…
Can anyone advise me as to what I am doing wrong there?
The easiest fix is probably to put the whole command in a shell script and just have that be run. So make a scriptName.sh file that contains the command you listed and have crontab call that script. That gets around all these odd problems.