How to specify bi-weekly crontab entries by day of the week?

[suvayu ali]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Remi Collet <Fedora at famillecollet.com> wrote:
> Le 18/09/2011 12:33, suvayu ali a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been trying to figure this out but so far haven't had any
>> success. I want to run jobs weekly, every 4 weeks (i.e. monthly) and
>> every 52 weeks (i.e. yearly) on a specific time on a Monday.
>>
>> I tried using the 1/<n> notation
>>
>> 00 2 * * 1/364  /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf yearly
>> 20 2 * * 1/28   /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf monthly
>> 40 2 * * 1      /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf weekly
>
> # First monday of january
> 00  2  1-7  1  1  /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf yearly
> # First monday of each month
> 20  2  1-7  *  1   /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf monthly
> # All mondays
> 40  2   *   *  1   /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf weekly
>

This was exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks a lot Remi. :)

PS: @Frantisek: thanks for the script.

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Suvayu

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