My database snapshots are ignored with crontab

Some users have reported that their database snapshots are not properly executed when using crontab. This issue is often caused by the mongodump or mongorestore command not being found by Snaper in the PATH environment variable.

To resolve this, you can update your crontab by adding PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin as follows:

0 0 * * * PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin/snaper backup --all >> /tmp/snaper.log

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In some cases, these commands may be located elsewhere on your system. You can check this by running:

which mongodump
which mongorestore