Questions tagged [anacron]

I have an anacron job that creates zfs snapshots using zfs-auto-snapshot package. I now want to create a job that sends the latest snapshot via zfs send to a backup server. As I understood, anacron means it will run the jobs anachronistic at least…

How does anacron determine daily, weekly and monthly job to run? Which time of the previous job will anacron use to decide whether to run the job again: start time or finish time of the previous job? Is it correct that anacron uses only the finish…