So I needed to run some periodic backup jobs, both for personal and professional needs. If were you ever tasked with such a request, you probably looked at cron. But cron has shortcoming: it does not survive power off events, it does not support any logs, and you can’t easily tell when, and if it was ran.
Meet systemd timers. A modern approach to running cron-like job-scheduling.
yield code(); · Working with systemd timers - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data.
So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task?
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