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Sarah
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Aug 13, 2026

i 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?

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    TheWolf
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    Aug 13, 2026

    Hi 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