Cron job for backup client gives exceptions

[Morten Flydahl]

I'm trying to setup a crontab for running backup on an Ubuntu Server 16.04, and I'm getting exceptions randomly. The cron job is set up correctly, using webmin.

The exception I get is:

Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'appHome' defined in class path resource [META-INF/spring/common-spring.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'bitbucket.home' in string value "${bitbucket.home}"; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'bitbucket.home' in string value "${bitbucket.home}"
2016-10-10 21:51:01,545 ERROR        BITBUCKET_HOME is not defined.
Creating a backup requires direct, filesystem access to BITBUCKET_HOME for the instance being backed up, in order to backup its repositories.
BITBUCKET_HOME may be set using an environment variable, a system property (bitbucket.home) or configured in backup-config.properties.
When running the job manually with:

The BICKBUCKET_HOME variable is

/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket

This is also set in backup-config.properties, in bitbucket.home=.

When I ran it manually as the user "root" the first five or so times with the following command

java jar /home/userwtih-root-premission/bitbucket-backup-client-3.3.0/bitbucket-backup-client.jar

it was all good, until i suddenly got the following exception:

Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'restClient' defined in class path resource [META-INF/spring/backup-spring.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'bitbucket.password' in string value "${bitbucket.password}"; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'bitbucket.password' in string value "${bitbucket.password}"

All the environment variables are set. All the values are set in backup-config.properties, and of course they are set correctly, since I could run it manually the first few times.

I have no idea why I'm experiencing this strange behavior. Please help me find a solution. If I must provide more information, please tell me what information you require, and where I find it if it's a log file or something.

Best regards,

Morten

[ThiagoBomfim · Accepted solution]

Hi Morten,

The bitbucket.properties file is read from wherever directory you run the java command. On your cronjob, are you doing a cd to the directory where this file is before executing? Same question applies for the case when you're running as root.

Regards,

Thiago

[Morten Flydahl]

That was it. I changed my cronjob to:

08 09 * * * cd /home/user-with-root-permission/bitbucket-backup-client-3.3.0 && java -jar bitbucket-backup-client.jar

Thank you 

[ThiagoBomfim]

Not a problem! Glad it helped.