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Sarah
Cirrus
Aug 13, 2026i have accidentally ran crontab -r
Hello Community, I accidentally ran crontab -r instead of crontab -e on my environment and it got cleared :( are there any reliable ways to recover the script?
TheWolf
Employee
Aug 13, 2026Hi Sarah​,
if you have a cluster, you can recover the file from the second cluster node. Otherwise with the next BIG-IP Update it will come back. Any update resets the cron file.
Any customizations you did to your cron file, you must recovery manually. Unfortunately.
But check /var/log/cron, /var/log/cron.1, etc. for custom jobs.
Cheers
Daniel
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