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Create an automatic backup using anacron

Written on November 25th, 2009 at 16:20 pm by chia

With cron, you schedule a job at a specific time and date. It assume that the machine is running continuously. But what if the machine is down? You have to wait until the next schedule and so on. This is where anacron can be useful. Using it you can schedule tasks on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. It is indeed an advanced cron.

Set a Cron Job in Linux

Written on October 27th, 2009 at 15:01 pm by chia

There are occasions when you want to create a schedule tasks on your server. Suppose you want to backup your hard drive once a week, or you want to run a script at 6 am every morning. All those things that you want to run at specific interval can be set with cron job. The cron daemon is a long running process that executes commands at user specified intervals. This howto provides a step-by-step tutorial on how you can schedule such a task using a program named crontab.

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