Cron error with using backquotes

Question

The following works fine from command line

/usr/bin/mysqldump -uUser -pPass Db_name > /var/www/db_backup/db.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.sql 

but

Answer 1

Put your one line script (as shown) into a proper script file and invoke that from cron:

$ cat /usr/local/bin/db-backup
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mysqldump -uUser -pPass Db_name > \
   /var/www/db_backup/db.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.sql 
$ # use RHEL commands to add db-backup to your crontab