• A typical cronjob for backing up just a root filesystem, once a day starting at 1AM, would look like the following. If a single backup takes longer than 24 hours, another will not be started concurrently, because of the just-one. You can edit this line into root's crontab by su'ing or sudo'ing to root, and running crontab -e. The crontab -e command will put you into a text editor, in which you'll create a new line with the text below: