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Old 05-08-2009
How to get the last crontab
Hi all,

can anybody tell how to get the last crontab if it is deleted.
is there any way to get the crontab back?
or it will it be staored anywhere ?
its very urgent, can anybody help for the same?

Thanks,
Vinay
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Old 05-08-2009
the only way is to restore it from backup.
# 3  
Old 05-08-2009
Tools
can you tell me how to restore?
# 4  
Old 05-08-2009
Found this on an other forum, check with your admin b4 executing:

1) tctl -f /dev/rmtxx rewind
2) tctl -f /dev/rmtxx fsf 3
3) restore -xvqf -s4 /dev/rmt0.1 ./var/spool/cron/crontabs/cronfile
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Old 05-08-2009
You will have to ask an administrator to restore the directory /var/spool/cron/crontabs from tape backup.

This is the reason why, in all my crontabs, I always have a daily backup script:

01 00 * * * crontab -l > ~/cronbackups/crontab.`date +\%Y\%m\%d`
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Old 05-08-2009
Or create a crontab file that you load by typing
Code:
crontab mycontabfile

Which allows you to be able to compare what you loaded with what is currently running
(and be surprised sometime...)
Or to reload the day an admin being stressed with some update manipulation removes all cronfiles to work in peace...
 
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