Add a cron schedule to take full backup of /home on every day at 5:30...

1. vi /var/schedule

30 17 * * * /sbin/dump -0u /dev/st0 /dev/hda7

2. crontab /var/schedule

3. service crond restart

We can add the cron schedule either by specifying the scripts path on /etc/crontab file or by creating on text file on crontab pattern.

cron helps to schedule on recurring events. Pattern of cron is: Minute Hour Day of Month Month

Day of Week Commands

0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-7 where 0 and 7 mean Sunday.

Note * means every. To execute the command on every two minutes */2.