Root crontab for backup

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday,  1 July 2006 at 15:55:32 +0300, Kostas Blekos wrote:
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>  Is it a bad idea to use root's crontab for backup scripts?

I can't see why.

> Is it better to put those scripts in periodic/... ?

It's a good idea to leave /etc/periodic as it is; it makes updating
easier.  I personally put this sort of thing in /etc/crontab, though
arguably (also because of upgrades) root's crontab is a better place.

Greg
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