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Automating System Maintenance with Cron Jobs

Automate regular backups of important files and directories using cron. For example, to back up the /home/user/documents directory to an external drive every day at 2:00 AM:

0 2 * * * tar -czf /mnt/external_drive/backup_$(date +\%F).tar.gz /home/user/documents

Aug 19, 2024
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