How to schedule Gitlab backup using Cron to a custom location on Ubuntu 21.04

Step 7: Schedule the cron jobs in Crontab file with using Nano editor

root@linuxhelp:~# crontab -e
no crontab for root - using an empty one

Select an editor.  To change later, run 'select-editor'.
  1. /bin/nano        <---- easiest
  2. /usr/bin/vim.tiny
  3. /bin/ed

Choose 1-3 [1]: 

# crontab: installing new crontab
#Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
#indicating with different fields when the task will be run
#and what command to run for the task
#To define the time you can provide concrete values for
#minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
#and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
#Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
#daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
#email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
#at 5 a.m every week with:
#0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#m h  dom mon dow   command
15 3 */1 */1 * gitlab-ctl backup-etc --backup-path /backup1 && cd /backup1 && cp $(ls -t | head -n1) /backup2

Step 8: List the taken backup taken by the cron at backup2 directory

root@linuxhelp:~# ls -l /backup2
total 300
-rw------- 1 root root 307200 Nov 13 03:15 gitlab_config_1636753503_2021_11_13.tar

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