I want to do a complete server backup.
I already have my backup script copying all of the html/php files for the web app, and the mysql databases, placing them into a .tar.gz file.
How can I add the crontab files to that backup?
Whenever I save the crontab, it goes to /tmp folder.. and when I check that folder immediately afterwards, it is empty.
Best Answer
You could just backup the entire
/var/spool/cron
directory. It contains all crontabs of all users.