On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 06:52:50AM +, Switch 1024 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first time OpenBSD user here. I came from 20 years of linux, then 6
> years of freebsd, and finally arrived at OpenBSD, thank you guys for
> doing such a great job. It just feels right, feels like home!
>
> While checking about how to backup the system correctly, and what
> files I need to recover my system and checked the altroot strategy,
> which is executed from the daily script which is started via cron.
>
> I checked my cron log and there are no executions of daily, weekly,
> etc. I only see newsyslog jobs being executed. Right, I put my laptop
> to sleep or turn it off most of the time when I am done working.
>
> So how to deal with this correctly? Change the hours to run the
> backups during the day? Is there a way to tell cron to run jobs it
> missed? (Reading the man pages, I did not see that there would be ...)
>
> How do you guys schedule these tasks (also cleanup tasks to clean out
> /tmp etc. on your laptops?
>
> Thank you,
> Best regards
> Rai
One suggestion would be to, just like on Linux, run jobs that need to
run at least once a day (if the machine is up at least once a day) using
anacron. The anacron tool is available as a package.
You would trigger anacron with a "@reboot", and possibly also with a
"@daily" cron job.
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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden
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