On 6 Apr 2022, at 00:43, Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra@gmx.com> wrote:

So sorry to suddenly wake up on this thread, but is cron going away. I use it all the time, hourly for backups and nightly for updates.

Many thanks,
Ranjan

cron is not going away, but it's got a cryptic syntax and is, in my experience, easy to make mistakes with.
Where as the systemd timers and services are easier to understand and have do exactly what you want,
at the cost of being more verbose, but explicit syntax.

Barry