Re: rsnapshot hangs when run from cron

Quoting "Michael Skibbe:

> On Friday 04 August 2006 13:32, Dave Lerner wrote:
> > Example:
> >
> > @daily /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot -V daily >>/tmp/rsnapshot.log 2>&1
> >
> > By the way, what is the "@" in "@daily" for?  I haven't seen that before.
>
> @daily says cron: every day
> @weekly: ever week
>
> thats crontab syntax

Thanks, I didn't know that.

But could that cause issues with rsnapshot, since you're not specifying the time
of day for those tasks?  My understanding is that it's best to stagger the task
times, running the less frequent tasks before the more frequent tasks, i.e.,
first weekly, then daily, then hourly, with gaps of a few minutes in between.

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