Add suggestion for crond method of scheduling full backups

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As of PBM <= v1.5 at least there is no internal backup scheduler that is run by a PBM agent. The way to run full backups on a schedule is to run the "pbm backup" command by a crond or simular scheduling tool.

We don't seem to have this in the documentation, so let's add it. As it is not a feature of PBM itself I think it shouldn't be in the "Usage" section, but rather in the "How-to" section.

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Akira Kurogane March 8, 2021 at 5:09 AM

(Raised after seeing suggestion in https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-frequency/9572/3)

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Created March 8, 2021 at 5:08 AM
Updated March 5, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Resolved March 19, 2021 at 7:42 AM