Cron Running Script and Logging

crontab

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# crontab can be edited using the following command:
#      For root user:     sudo crontab -e
#      For current user:  cronttab -e
#      For specific user: sudo cronttab -e -u ismet
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# To view all current crontab entries:
#      For root user:     sudo crontab -l
#      For current user:  cronttab -l
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# NOTES: 
#    - Root user crontab will have root privelages
#    - Cron will not run while the crontab file is open for editing
#    - You may have to restart cron (but it should automatically pick up changes): 
#          sudo service cron reload
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# Alert notification contact email in case something fails
MAILTO="xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com"


# Specify to use bash shell for all cron jobs
SHELL=/bin/bash


# Specify PATH variable for all cron jobs 
#     Note: Cron will only have very minimal enviroment variables
#           To find the system's PATH variable: $ echo $PATH
PATH=/home/<YOUR LOCAL USERNAME>/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin


# Scheduled job to run and output/append any cron notifications and standard out messages to a log file
#     Format: [minute 0-59] [hour 0-23] [day 1-31] [month 1-12] [weekday 0-6] [your command or scrip location] >> [file to save output log messages]
#     Note:   This following job will run every day at 3:05am
5 3 * * * /home/<YOUR LOCAL USERNAME>/Documents/lvm_snapshot_remote_backup.sh >> /home/<YOUR LOCAL USERNAME>/Documents/backup_message_logs/backup_message_log.txt