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Cron Jobs work like an alarm clock, you set the timer to a set date and time, and when the alarm goes off, some command gets executed. Simple enough, right?

Cron jobs are the smartest and simplest way to automate things on a Linux server, however, its design, deeply rooted in the earliest code from the initial versions of the Linux kernel, designed by the deep minds that created Linux itself, doesn’t always present itself as obvious to us marketers, that’s probably why so many people have issues with cron jobs. Yes, maybe this is something that could be solved within the Mautic interface, maybe someday… in the meantime, let’s try to tackle this problem down.

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Installing Mautic plugins is really simple… most of the time…
But there’s always some obscure unofficial plugin that you really need so badly, and those always have little or no instructions and hence they refuse to install.

Don’t worry, it really is very simple, if you know a couple of tricks… Let’s start with the basics:

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There’s much more to making backups than just copying files, as you probably know, you need a backup strategy. In this post, I’m not going to enter in detail on the strategic part. Anyway, I’m going to abide by the most basic and indispensable elements of a backup strategy, that is so, if you ever need your data, you have a certain guarantee that your data will remain available to you when most needed.

I’m going to start with a little bit of theory, I know it’s boring, but it will let you understand what you’re doing in the second part when we start using the console and giving instructions to the server.

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Mautic cron jobs automate several repetitive tasks that Mautic needs to perform in order to run properly. Mautic Cron jobs also allow you to control the timings on each of those processes.

This is the complete and most updated guide on Mautic 3 Cron jobs, now revisited after Mautic 3, so you can take Mautic Cron Jobs to the top-level and automate Mautic tasks with Crontab.

This is a 3-level series about Mautic Cron Jobs, each guide is suited for users with different levels of skills: Newbie, Rookie, and PRO.

Read More »Mautic 3 Cron Jobs – The Full Guide.