Re: rsnapshot hangs when run from cron

On Friday 04 August 2006 14:18, Dave Lerner wrote:
> > @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.

i use this since i use rsnapshot. i had never a problem with this and i have no 
clue which
command (@daily or @weekly) runs first. but i remember me, that i see something 
that
these commands only are symlinks to a real time.

Greetings
Michael
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