How to organize automatic backup of PostgreSQL databases via cron?

Question

PostgreSQL

Good afternoon, to create a backup of Postgres databases, I use the command
pg_dump gitlab > /DATA/backups/gitlab`date +%d-%m-%Y`
Everything works the way I want, but if I put this command in cron, then after executing this command a message with information in /var/mail/postgres falls, with the error text
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
I understand that something is wrong in the syntax, but how to fix this error? Thanks in advance for all the help

Answer 1

We read man 5 crontaband see
That is, the percent sign in the cron configuration file is perceived as a newline character. To prevent this from happening, it must be escaped with a backslash.

pg_dump gitlab > /DATA/backups/gitlab`date +\%d-\%m-\%Y`