Cron

🧪 Cron Job Automation Lab 📌 Objective To build a scheduled automation script, observe its behavior, and learn how to debug failures. ⚙️ Part 1 - Script Setup Create a working directory: mkdir -p ~/cronlab cd ~/cronlab Create the script: nano backup.sh #!/bin/bash DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S") LOG_FILE="$HOME/cronlab/backup.log" SOURCE="$HOME" BACKUP_DIR="$HOME/cronlab/backups" exec >> "$LOG_FILE" 2>&1 echo "--- RUN $DATE ---" mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR" rsync -a --exclude="cronlab" \ "$SOURCE/" "$BACKUP_DIR/home-backup-$DATE/" echo "Backup finished" ...