[LUNA] (ana)cron question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/06/15 11:56, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> On RHEL systems, /etc/anacrontab contains entries to run scripts in /etc/cron.daily/, /etc/cron.weekly/ and /etc/cron.monthly:
>
> #  cat /etc/anacrontab
> # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
>
> # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> # the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
> RANDOM_DELAY=45
> # the jobs will be started during the following hours only
> START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22
>
> #period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
> 1	5	cron.daily		nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 7	25	cron.weekly		nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> @monthly 45	cron.monthly		nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
>
>
> For reference: http://serverfault.com/questions/135906/when-does-cron-daily-run
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> I have several boxen on my LAN, all running some form of linux or *BSD.
>> I want some of them to backup configuration files and/or /etc and/or the
>> whole root fs for themselves & other LAN boxen periodically, probably
>> weekly. I read the man page on my FC14-x86_64 box (soon to be upgraded
>> to CentOS-6, so don't start ;-) ) & have a question. It looks like I
>> want root to do the backing up so as to have access to all the stuff
>> under /etc or /. That box uses anacron to take care of that for the
>> system. I want to add to what it is doing, in a fashion which doesn't
>> interfere w/ system operations & gets preserved across OS upgrades. I
>> kinda expected some sort of crontab.local (following rc.local), but no
>> such capability seems to exist. How do I go about scheduling these
>> backups for the various machines which will be doing the backing-up,
>> starting w/ the linux box ? I am planning to schedule rsync's to do the
>> actual backing up, I just need to figure out how to interleave that job
>> w/ other stuff the OS is doing on its own, w/o interfering w/ whatever
>> else is going on. TIA for any pointers & have a good one.
>>
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Hmmmmm .... OK, so what do I do, add scripts to the various /etc/[d,w,m] 
directories ? Do they get wiped out in upgrades ? That's basically what 
I was asking about ....

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