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Step 5Automation
So you've figured out to make a snapshot of your system, and now you want to do it every night. Cron works great for this, and it's pretty simple to setup.
Cron jobs are simply commands that are run on a regular basis. They can run monthly, nightly, or even at half-past 7am on monday mornings.
Cron jobs are specified in the crontab file. In FreeBSD this file is located at /etc/crontab
View the man pages for /etc/crontab to figure out how it works
I've attached my crontab to this page (remove the .txt extension).
All you do is add your cron jobs and save the file. The file is re-evaluated every minute, so you're done.
Cron jobs are simply commands that are run on a regular basis. They can run monthly, nightly, or even at half-past 7am on monday mornings.
Cron jobs are specified in the crontab file. In FreeBSD this file is located at /etc/crontab
View the man pages for /etc/crontab to figure out how it works
I've attached my crontab to this page (remove the .txt extension).
All you do is add your cron jobs and save the file. The file is re-evaluated every minute, so you're done.
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