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[Jim Higson]

I'm adding backups to my crontab with crontab -e called as root. This brought up the editor and I entered:

30 05 * * * root pdumpfs /home/jim /mnt/backup-hdd/home/jim >/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.errlog
00 06 * * * root pdumpfs /etc /mnt/backup-hdd/etc >/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.errlog

I'm trying to backup my home dir daily at 5:30am and /etc at 6am

When I save+exit from the editor crontab says:

crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.3410":2: bad day-of-month
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want to retry the same edit?

I can't see the problem here. In both cases I have '*' as the day-of-month