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I automated Linux backups with a simple bash script and cron (and it’s better than a GUI)

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.
Business Wire

Quanergy Names CRON Systems Certified System Integrator to Provide Advanced Border Security Solutions in India

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quanergy Systems Inc., a global leader in the design and development of light detection and ranging technology (LiDAR) sensors and smart sensing solutions, and CRON ...
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5 weird but handy cron jobs I swear by

If your homelab is container-heavy like mine, you know that latency matters and it matters a lot. This cron job pings all ...
ZDNet

What is cron and how do you use it?

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Ars Technica

Consequences of setting system cron to run with bash instead of sh

I've got a few bash scripts on a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 boxes that back up some directories with rsync to a central server, then records in a log file the success or failure of the operations and ...
Ars Technica

When do cron jobs run

If I have stuff in cron.daily or .hourly or whatever how does it get scheduled? Do they run as soon as they can (like the daily at 0:00:01) or is there some randomness involved? I am concerned about ...
Computerworld

Scheduling tasks in WordPress with WP-Cron

Task schedulers are important and complicated. The Cron utility for Unix-like systems is one of the oldest, most mature, and best out there – but it can be very system specific which doesn’t lend ...