Hi,

I am a Linux administrator (newbie) in my company. The distro being used in the servers here is Centos 5.3

Just need to know, as a Linux administrator is it better for me to use /etc/crontab to set my cron jobs. I do not want to use the crontab -e to schedule my cron jobs.

That means can I edit the default settings (to different time settings) in etc/crontab in order to get my database to backed up?

And another question is, how do I set the cron job to only show the current week's backup (in the database backup directory) and remove the previous week's backups.

One week would mean Monday to Saturday.

Pls help.

Tqs.