Difference between revisions of "Automating your backups with cron"
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| + | If you only do your backup when you hear about a case of someone loosing data then you will not have a recent backup when you need it. So you should automate the backup process. If you want to run a certain command at a regular interval then you can use the unix '''cron''' tool. |
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| + | == User and System Crontab == |
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| + | cron has a text based configuration file that contains the commands that should be run and when they should be run. |
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| + | == Example Crontab == |
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Revision as of 12:29, 29 October 2020
Motivation
If you only do your backup when you hear about a case of someone loosing data then you will not have a recent backup when you need it. So you should automate the backup process. If you want to run a certain command at a regular interval then you can use the unix cron tool.
User and System Crontab
cron has a text based configuration file that contains the commands that should be run and when they should be run.
