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I have written a script to perform a backup. I would like it to run every day, but I don't want it sitting in a loop 24/7 waiting to run. Is there a way to schedule it to run once a day?
zaichik - One last thing, I've had a look at the tutorials and have made my entries into crontab, but I can't find if I have to restart crontab to get it to pickup my changes. Is a crontab restart necessary and how is it done?
Nope, restarting cron is not necessary, you should be good to go. As always when you are backing data up, check to make sure the backup actually ran--don't just trust that there is not something wrong with the script or something else!
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