Vorta scheduling fail

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I use Borg & Vorta. I like the ease of Vorta’s GUI. I need to schedule 2 Vorta profiles, one at 00:00 & 12:00 the other at 06:00 & 18:00 I can not do this in the vorta scheduler which is a pain, however Vorta does allow you to execute the profiles with a command vorta --create <PROFILE> which is handy. So i tried to create a crontab for each profile but crontab just errors.

Jul 15 12:20:01 greg-inspiron5767 CROND[230964]: (greg) CMDOUT (qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display )
Jul 15 12:20:01 greg-inspiron5767 CROND[230964]: (greg) CMDOUT (qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.)
Jul 15 12:20:01 greg-inspiron5767 CROND[230964]: (greg) CMDOUT (This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the applic
ation may fix this problem.)

If i look in the settings at the “Task scheduler” GUI of crontab i can check that the entry does work by hitting “Run Now”

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and it works fine, it just does not work when the crontab is run by its own timing.

I have tried to make a bash executable for crontab to execute, but that does not work either.

I have briefly looked at the systemd timers but its all way over my head, plus im not even sure if i will just get the same result anyhow.

Why is creating a very simple timer such a head scratch, there must be a simple timer GUI, maybe a thing that starts at boot and sits in the tray as an icon, you can just add stuff and it just works?

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Don’t try to schedule GUI programs, but schedule Borg directly.

E.G. for my system, just slightly update for you:

#!/bin/bash
#Go to home directory
cd /home/jackdinn
logger "Backup starting..."
borg create --stats --progress --compression lzma,9 \
            --exclude ".cache/" \
            --exclude ".local/share/" \
            --exclude ".config/borg/" \
            --exclude ".thunderbird/iznbwd6v.default-release/ImapMail/" \
            --exclude "snap" \
            --exclude "jimbo" \
            --exclude "Examples" \
            --exclude "Downloads" \
            --exclude "Videos/*.avi" \
            --exclude "Videos/*.mp4" \
            --exclude "Videos/*.mkv" \
      /media/NAS/home/jackdinn/BCK::{now:%Y-%m-%d} . 2>> /temp/"jackdinn"-bck.log
# if error, wriote to journal and jump to end
if [[ $? -gt 0 ]]; then
  logger "Backup errors found in /temp/jackdinn-bck.log"
else
  logger "Backup has ended."
fi
  • Save the above in /usr/local/bin/jackdinnbck,
  • chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/jackdinnbck to allow anyone to execute it
  • schedule the script instead of a GUI…

:crossed_fingers:

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Yea , i know, i used to do it that way, but as i say in my OP I like the convenience and ease of Vorta GUI I am not prepared to lose all that i gain from using it.

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