Schedule a nightly backup with cron

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Objectives

  • Met: The crontab line parses
  • Met: The job fires at 02:30
  • Not met: It does not fire at 02:31, 03:30, or midnight
  • Met: It runs /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
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