I do not understand the relation between system cron, the cron prop in config file, and autorestic cron command. My conclusions on this (might be falsy)

[Kenya-West]

The docs page do not mention the relations of these at all.

The questions are:

1. Why do I need to define cron prop in .autorestic.yaml if I have already setup a cronjob like: autorestic backup -c ~/.autorestic.yaml -av --ci for every hour 0 * * * * * in the system?

2. Why do I need to run autorestic cron command if I have the same job already setup from above?

3. The cron command docs page does not explain what the autorestic cron command do. It is mentioned that it should be run by system cron. Why?

4. Can the cron prop in .autorestic.yaml config file be defined in the global section? There is no schema for the config...

Despite the absenced info, I have made some conclusions:

• I can define cron prop in global section of .autorestic.yaml config file;
• The autorestic cron will generate and register cronjobs in the system for each backend;
• I manually set these generated cronjobs to run every minute;
• The cronjobs will be skipped if they do not satisfy the keep strategy defined in config file.

Am I right?