BGSAVE in cron is not needed, you can configure Redis (and this is the default config) to automatically save every N seconds if there are at least M changes in

BGSAVE in cron is not needed, you can configure Redis (and this is the default config) to automatically save every N seconds if there are at least M changes in the dataset. It is possible to configure multiple save points. More info: http://redis.io/topics/persistence http://redis.io/topics/persistence