Re: dump/restore and crontab(5)

trondd writes:

> On Mon, July 2, 2018 8:14 am, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
>> Having clobbered my crontab (5) file in error (-r and -e are close) I
>> merrily went to my level 0 dump to restore it. It's present on the dump
>> (which is to file) but the restored file is zero bytes.
>>
>> Should I have run those dumps manually instead of as cron jobs?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Edward Ahlsen-Girard
>> Ft Walton Beach, FL
>>
>
> I'd have to look later to see if my dumps are coreectly grabbing the
> crontabs. But first, try looking in /var/backups either on disk, or in
> your dump.
>
> Tim.

Indeed, you can find your last file in
/var/backups/var_cron_tabs_root.backup or
/var/backups/var_cron_tabs_root.current

Those files are created by security(8) script, which should be run every
day at 1h30.