By terrydiaz
Cron Jobs are used for scheduling tasks to run on the server. They’re most commonly used for automating system maintenance or administration. However, they are also relevant to web application development. There are many situations when a web application may need certain tasks to run periodically. A cron job/scheduled task is a system-side automatic task that can be configured to run for an infinite number of times at a given interval. Cron/scheduled task allows you to schedule a command or a script to run at a specific time of day, or on a specific day of the week or at a particular time of day on a specific day of the month. It allow for scheduling down to the minute and up to an annual event. Here is the simple step how to create Cron Job to Backup Your SQL Database :