Wouldn’t it be nice if cron’s daily, weekly and monthly jobs could be run with a slight offset? At least that’s what I thought when 20+ servers were hitting my backup infrastructure at once. The scripts in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly are triggered directly from crontab at fixed times. Here’s what /etc/crontab looks like in …
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