The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data.
So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task?
Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It’s also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.
cron is quite inadequate for condition based scheduling. Instead of million obscure ways to achieve this inside the command that cron executes, systemd timers give us a standard ONE way to do things.
I feel like systemd timers follow unix philosophy better than cron at this day and age.
How are systemd timers not a solution looking for a problem?
Explain?
Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It’s also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.
cron is quite inadequate for condition based scheduling. Instead of million obscure ways to achieve this inside the command that cron executes, systemd timers give us a standard ONE way to do things.
I feel like systemd timers follow unix philosophy better than cron at this day and age.