I was trying to explain my system of crontabs to someone on IRC today and didn’t put it over very well. So this is my attempt at improving it. I have a users.crontab and a root.crontab both in my cron folder in my home folder. The users ...

I’ve now automated my backups with the following line in my users crontab - 00 */3 * * * /home/boztu/cron/backup.sh - which is calling the file backup.sh which consists of -

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#!/bin/bash -x
 #shell script for use with rsync in user crontab
 /usr/bin/rsync -av ...