alt Hacker NewsMoved from cronie to systemd timers because they are resilient to system startup times. My backup strategy is to create a borg archive entry every day at a fixed time. With cronie the system needs to be running at the scheduled time, but systemd timer tolerates this and runs the service as soons as the system is available.
Btw this is my repo for the backup automation: https://github.com/gchamon/borg-automated-backups
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I'm sorry, I tried Googling the word "tolates" but I can't find any definition that makes sense?
> runs the service as soons as the system is available.
cron has the @reboot option which I use for a few scripts and works great.
> With cronie the system needs to be running at the scheduled time, but systemd timer tolerates this and runs the service as soons as the system is available.
Cronie doesn't have a `@reboot` meta-trigger?
Cronie has a mechanism for this, called "anacron", which is called hourly by cron (on my system, /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron), and performs all the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} tasks, no matter if the earliest possible schedule was missed (and with a configurable random delay). You can modify /etc/anacrontab to create custom schedules.
To do this at the user level, you can add something like "@hourly anacron -t /path/to/anacrontab -S /path/to/spooldir" to the user's crontab, though I've never tried this.
Many cron implementations have a similar mechanism.