Configure cron jobs in macOS

We will use the crontab command to schedule a daily backup of important files on our Macintosh.

• Open a terminal window
• If you only need access to your personal files continue to the next step
  • To be able to access protected files too, switch to sudo with
    sudo -i
    and enter your password.
• Execute the command
  crontab -e
• The VI editor opens, enter the scheduling command.
  This example runs every day at 11:00 pm, changes to the backup_scripts directory, executes the daily_backup.sh script and saves the cron logs in the /tmp directory
  0 23 * * * cd ~/Git/_Work/BACKUPS/backup_scripts && ./daily_backup.sh 2>&1 >> /tmp/cron.log