Today I’m moving the entire physical server to a Virtual Server. When it comes to the cronjob that I have set up in the past, I have no idea how I start with since I have hundreds of cronjobs are running periodically on the current server. Some run every hour, some run every Monday morning for marketing and financial reports, some run every night to do the Credit Card batch processing on all subscriptions. Now if I move the server and I don’t carry the cronjobs over, none of the activities will be running on the new Virtual Server. I can sit there and re-type all the cron scripts again but I found out there’s the easier way to do it – Copy and Paste. However, where should I paste on the Linux server. There’re tons of directories in the Linux server, you got to know where to get the cronjob file in order to paste your cronjobs.
Step 1: Log on to FTP/SFTP server, go to a directory called /var/spool/cron/ where you can find root file. You must be a root owner.
Step 2: Open the file in Notepad/Notepad++, now you can paste the entire cronjob activities in this file.
Step 3: Remember to save it to the proper server.
Step 4: Rename the URLs so they’ll resolve based on where your server is, or where your URL points to.