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esperentlast Wednesday at 3:35 AM1 replyview on HN

How reliable are cronjobs in termux?

Does they get killed if you're low on memory?

Perhaps you could share these scripts somewhere? I'm sure other people would find inspiration from them.

Personally I use Nextcloud for all my phone and computer backups, it's working well for me.


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godelskilast Wednesday at 5:46 AM

  > How reliable are cronjobs in termux?
I mean it is no systemd... cron is cron. As long as termux is running they run. Just make sure google doesn't kill it and that it starts on boot. I haven't really had issues tbh.

  > Does they get killed if you're low on memory?
Honestly, no idea. I've never pushed my device that hard. 8GB is quite a lot for a phone.

  > Perhaps you could share these scripts somewhere?
I should have posted with my realname account. I did put them in my dotfiles but I can't share that repo without doxing myself. Is there something you're specifically interested in?

  > Personally I use Nextcloud
That seems like a good route too. Would you recommend this over my setup? I find my current setup pretty easy tbh but hey, nothings perfect and it can always be better, right?
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