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→Examples for crobtab entries
*A , separated list of numbers
*Month and day of week can be short words (or ranges or lists of words)
===Shortcuts for crontab Entries===
Below are a listing of shortcut keywords (in bold) can can be used to represent the fields.
You would still have to specify the command or program to run.
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'''@reboot''' Run once, at startup.<br>
'''@yearly''' Run once a year (replaces: 0 0 1 1 *)<br>
'''@monthly''' Run once a month (replaces: 0 0 1 * *)<br>
'''@weekly''' Run once a week (replaces: 0 0 * * 0)<br>
'''@daily''' Run once a day (replaces: 0 0 * * *)<br>
'''@hourly''' Run once an hour (replaces: 0 * * * *)<br>
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==Examples for crontab entries==
Here are some examples of crontab entries for automating backup:
'''@reboot rsync -avz 192.168.10.158:/etc /backup/vm1/''' # Remotely backup changes to /etc/ files in vm1
'''0 2 * * * rsync -avz 192.168.10.158:/etc /backup/vm1/''' # Backup at 2:00 am everyday
