Cron processes, interacted with the use of crontabs crontab is a special file with formatting that is recognised by cron. they require 6 specific values: MIN - What minute to execute at HOUR - What hour to execute at DOM - What day of the month to execute at MON - What month of the year to execute at DOW - What day of the week to execute at CMD - The actual command that will be executed example to update cmnatic's documents every 12 hours. `~$ 0 *12 * * * cp -R /home/cmnatic/documents var/backups Cron tabs can we edited with `~$ crontab -e` ![[cron.png]] Helpful tools: [Crontab Generator](https://crontab-generator.org) [Crontab Guru](https://crontab.guru) links: [[_LinuxTerminalCMDIndex]] tags: #linux #terminal #CMD