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Are you backing up your cron table?

• lsh123 12y ago
  There is a much simpler option: just backup the "/var/spool/cron" folder with all the user crontabs in it.
  • txutxu 12y ago
    /var/spool/cron AND /etc/cron* This is, the personal cron tasks, as well as, the system cron tasks (/etc/crontab, cron.d/, cron.hourly/, cron.daily/*, etc). Depending on the distribution you may need other files from anacron or other cron implementations, but they will be mostly configuration files for cron and no tasks. Also note that the system crontab may reference non-standard locations. I've seen things like "/etc/cron.5minutely" debugging live servers. At the end of the day, usually you backup everything except excludes. An unix like system, uses to have so many files, that being picking one by one needed files on backup, is not practical. Updated (for clarity).
• natch 12y ago
  Nice, thanks! I'd rather do this than say backup /whatever/whatever because in my experience the value of /whatever/whatever changes on different flavors of UNIX.