My site is controlled via **cpanel**. I want to automate the backup of my databases and then automate their download to my development machine. The first step was to set up the **cron jobs** as follows

```
0   3   *   *   4   mysqldump -u username -p password database1 > backup/db_biz_directory.sql
0   4   *   *   4   mysqldump -u username -p password database2 > backup/db_swr_software.sql

```

1. There are two empty files in the backup folder timestamped 11th, that is last Thursday.
2. There are no errors in the errors section of cPanel.
3. There is nothing under **etc**, **logs** or **var** folders.
4. I did not receive any emails, they are set up and do work.
5. There are tables and data in those databases.

Since the files exist, the jobs obviously ran. What is wrong with my job? Could the errors be logged somewhere else?