From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5365B15838C for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DA72E2A44; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F2BCE2A3E for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rVCfa-0001SO-CT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:38:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:38:26 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <8f5371a5-07af-456e-8517-cb9bb664fac4@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: b3d6f30f-ba65-4854-98cf-8c6c3e776d0e X-Archives-Hash: 7524a71a9eb39319224a7b0b06df3ae8 On 2024-01-31, gentoo-user@krasauskas.dev wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 20:38 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> It took me an embarassing number of tries to get the intervals and >> crontab entries to mesh so it worked the way I wanted. It's not >> really >> that difficult (and it's pretty well documented), but I managed to >> combine a misreading of how often and in what order the rsync wrapper >> was supposed to run with my chronic inability to grok crontab >> specifications. Hilarity ensued. >> > > I just wanted to share my 2ยข. https://crontab.guru has made my life a > lot easier when it comes to setting up crontab. Yep, I just found that site recently myself, and it's a big help. -- Grant