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Working with Systemd Timers
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?
Cron is easy, very simple and robust mechanism to execute periodic tasks on a *nix server, and is available by default on all popular Linux distributions. The format for OnCalendar is actually DayOfWeek Year-Month-Day Hour:Minute:Second, but every component can be replaced by asterisk to signify any value. There are various Type values and you can find them in man systemd, but the reason I have used oneshot is that it essentially allows us to specify multiple ExecStart directives, and executing all the commands serially.
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