Scheduled tasks — cron, anacron and systemd timers

30 min Rocky Linux 9 Versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Objective

Automate the repetitive jobs of a server: nightly backups, cleanup, reports. You will know how to choose between cron and systemd timers, and how to read any crontab line.

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