Below is the code added to 192.168.254.246 to back up all the files in the /var/www/marketing/ directory,. It is set to run every day at 1am and saves a zip file with the current date into the /backup directory:
* 1 * * * cd /backup && zip -r "$(date +"%Y%m%d")-live.zip" /var/www/marketing/
This command has been added using crontab -e
(vim commands needed here).
After making changes, be sure to run this to restart cron:
service crond restart
The command below can show you what jobs are currently running:
crontab -l
The command below will delete all cron jobs:
crontab -r