Cron reinstallation

Question

Can cron be reinstalled? If so, how to take cron job backups created by system and applications like postfix, apache etc.,

Now after taking backups how to reinstall cron?

Answer 1

you can reinstall cron with :

      sudo apt-get --reinstall install paquete

reinstall dont delete your conf files, but if you want a backup, you nedd the next files and folder for cron's system :

   /etc/crontab

   /etc/cron.d/
   /etc/cron.daily/
   /etc/cron.hourly
   /etc/cron.monthly
   /etc/cron.weekly

and for user's cron :

    /var/spool/cron/