The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data.
So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task?
systemd is a relatively new utility that provides an array of components for Linux systems.
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Snideness aside, systemd timers can be pretty neat. They also have some features like being able to specify “Daily” and setting some looseness in when it triggers if you e.g. have a fleet of machines and don’t want them all to do something at exactly the same time.
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what
Snideness aside, systemd timers can be pretty neat. They also have some features like being able to specify “Daily” and setting some looseness in when it triggers if you e.g. have a fleet of machines and don’t want them all to do something at exactly the same time.
To be fair, it is relatively new. Cron will be 50 this year which blows my fucking mind.