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darkAsPitch
Asked: 2011-11-18 21:06:25 +0800 CST

How To Backup "crontab -e" Files?

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I want to do a complete server backup.

I already have my backup script copying all of the html/php files for the web app, and the mysql databases, placing them into a .tar.gz file.

How can I add the crontab files to that backup?

Whenever I save the crontab, it goes to /tmp folder.. and when I check that folder immediately afterwards, it is empty.

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You could just backup the entire /var/spool/cron directory. It contains all crontabs for all users.

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  2. You can periodically run crontab -l > my_crontab.backup to backup the crontab into file.

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  3. just backup the file /var/spool/cron/USER_NAME

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  4. I made my backup into a cron job.

    0 9 * * * crontab -l | gzip > /backups/'crontab-'$(date +"\%Y\%m\%d-\%H\%M\%S")'.gz'
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