Cron is a job management tool for Unix-based operating systems that allows you to schedule tasks to run periodically, but the cron expressions used to schedule them can be difficult to read.

Until recently, I had a cron job running each night at 3AM, which used rsync to copy my entire /Users tree to a backup usb drive. This stopped working on December 11. I need some advice.The setup ...

I wrote a little shell script to run mysql backups and then scheduled it to run nightly with cron, but when I look in my backup folder I never find new backups. My shell script works when I run it ...

Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.