HACKER Q&A
📣 groundpepper

How do you use cron at work?


I'm working on a cron alternative and would love to gather data outside of my own on how people are using this utility.


  👤 Nextgrid Accepted Answer ✓
I recommend systemd timers instead, that way each service can have its own unit & timer files in its package without having to mess with a single system-wide file like the crontab.

👤 Kaze404
Not really cron, but I made a systemd unit that checks a directory and syncs it to my s3 drive when there are new files

👤 connectedpanda
To backup files every day