precedence in crontabs

[Jon Allen Boone]

You could do what we do - have cron run a backupprogram - which calls
a script which, for each machine, calls a c program to determine the
level of the dump, writes a header file (using dd) on the tape, then
does the dump to the tape, keeping a detailed log (dump's output) for
each day (the last 14 days are kept) and a not-so-detailed log (dd's
output) for general record keeping.  For 14 volumes, we do a level 0
dump every fortnight.

Or you could replace the whole schmear with a perl script to do the
whole thing for you.

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