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# In your host machine as root, edit your crontab and enter the line above. Modify the setting so it will run that echo command every 2 minutes.
# Wait for two minutes to pass, and check the '''/tmp/cron.log''' file to see if it was created with the expected contents. <br>(You can also check '''/var/log/cron''' file to see what jobs were run).
# Edit your crontab to make automatic backups of the '''/etc''' directory from '''vm1''', '''vm2''', and '''vm3''' into '''/backup/vm1''', '''/backup/vm2''', and '''/backup/vm3''' every hour and overwrite the previous backup.