In this video, we'll look at how to schedule simple tasks using the Linux cron service, and how to add entries to the user's Crontab file for tasks that need to be execute on a schedule or at particular intervals.
We'll also look at the python-crontab package for scheduling tasks and editing the user's crontab directly from Python code.
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📌 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Cron Service + Crontab files
05:22 Adding task to user crontab
06:54 Simple Database Backup task with cron
09:00 Scheduling Python script with cron
11:00 Using python-crontab package to schedule tasks
18:01 Monitoring Cron tasks with Better Stack
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