Hello,
I require a bit more of education in terms of crontab jobs listed under the root account on 20.04.1-latest.
My problem is simple: I have added several backup jobs under "sudo crontab -e" but they never seem to be executed.
For example:
5 2 * * 5 rsync -avh --no-links --info=skip0 /home/dd/bin/* /home/dd/bin.NAS
Hence, I am expecting my ~/bin folder to get backed up once a week over to my NAS.
Just today, and just for fun, I have issued the rsync command manually and to my surprise there was a HUGE delta in between source and target (So huge in fact that I know that command was never executed since put in place)
Therefore my question is: are crontab jobs added under the root account executed normally or if something else needs to happen? Bonus question: would I need to add '$mycommand' in between ' ' ? After googling that out, I think the answer is NO but while we're it at, I might as well ask more questions than not as I would really like to get this going flawlessly.
My fear: because the root account is "disabled" in Ubuntu I need to activate something else somewhere (such as change password?). But I would like to think that I am wrong on any of this and that added values to root's crontab would be executed automatically just like with any other distro.
Thanks in advance,