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Set DirectAdmin Admin Backup Cron from the CLI Without the Panel
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Set DirectAdmin Admin Backup Cron from the CLI Without the Panel

CMD_ADMIN_BACKUP takes five steps to set up a cron job, but DirectAdmin actually just appends one line to backup_crons.list and lets dataskq pick it up. Here is how to write directly to the file from the CLI, including common traps with when=now, base64, and append_to_path.

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8 min read·24 Jul