-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was adding a cronjob to archive Apache logs ... one of those things I suddenly realized I wished I'd done six months ago ... and I noticed that the root crontab I wrote assumed the quiet time of the day would be Midnight Eastern timezone. I checked the graphs on linode.com and found our low time is 20:00 Eastern (8 pm)/Midnight UTC, rising to a peak at 14:00 UTC, then quickly back down toward 00:00. Of course, there are lots of other peaks during the day; I'm thinking more of the sustained baseline. (Refer to the attached usage graphs for the last 24 hours.) I switched the cronjobs to start at Midnight UTC, and then run over the course of an hour with long spaces in between. Just seemed like the right thing to do, so I did it; same with notifying, being it's a relatively minor change that couldn't disrupt any services. - - Karsten # Give root word about the backup MAILTO=root # # Run five minutes after 8 pm Eastern/Midnight UTC at quietest time, every day 5 20 * * * /root/bin/wordpress-backup.sh # Run ten minutes after 8 pm Eastern/Midnight UTC at quietest time, every day 10 20 * * * /root/bin/mediawiki-backup.sh # Run thirty minutes after 8 pm Eastern/Midnight UTC every day, to clean out older than 7 days 30 20 * * * /root/bin/backup-cleanup.sh # Run forty-five minutes after 8 pm Eastern/Midnight UTC every day, to track subscriber trends 45 20 * * * /root/bin/mailman-subscriber-count.sh # Run fifty-five minutes after 8 pm Eastern/Midnight UTC every day, to archve Apache logs 55 20 * * * /root/bin/httpd_log_backup.sh ~ - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFQEx+P2ZIOBq0ODEERAvJZAKDOk0WYGIGYVsp8DtxHylQpxGCnBgCdElkX QJsx1MStANWUqN6OgDkSYBE= =ph5Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----