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Am using Ubuntu14.04. Server Backup will take place every week. But will this affect the crontab? Because "sudo crontab -e" does not contain the cron job which I gave. Please help! Thanks in advance

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    "The cron job that you gave"? How did you give tho cronjob? – Kusalananda♦ May 31 '17 at 7:18
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    Crystal ball guess: crontab -e shows your personal crontab. the personal crontab, even for the root user, is unrelated to the system crontab in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.weekly and friends. – Ulrich Schwarz May 31 '17 at 7:30
  • Try sudo crontab -u <user> -e instead or were you trying to set-up a system crontab? – Tigger May 31 '17 at 8:18
  • @Kusalananda : I used this command "crontab -e" – Octopus May 31 '17 at 8:23
  • @Tigger This works – Octopus May 31 '17 at 8:25
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Every user has their individual crontab. This includes the root user.

When you add a cronjob with crontab -e, you add it into the list of jobs for the current user.

This means that with sudo crontab -e, you will be editing the list of cron jobs for the root user.

To edit the crontab for a specific user, use sudo crontab -e -u username, or log in as that user and use crontab -e.

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