Backintime does not start

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After a fresh install of EOS with Plasma, I installed Backintime from the AUR. When starting, the icon appears briefly and disappears. Back intime is not active according to the system monitor.

For the new installation I took over data from the backup. Attempting to delete the Backintime folders from ./config and ./local was unsuccessful.

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can you start it from the command line and then post the output here?.

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which: no crontab in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
which: no fcrontab in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
CRITICAL: Command crontab and fcrontab not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/backintime.py", line 24, in <module>
    import config
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/config.py", line 48, in <module>
    import schedule
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/schedule.py", line 54, in <module>
    CRONTAB_COMMAND = _determine_crontab_command()
  File "/usr/share/backintime/common/schedule.py", line 51, in _determine_crontab_command
    raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError: Command crontab and fcrontab not found.
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Have you enabled a cron service?

sudo systemctl enable --now cronie
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Failed to enable unit: Unit cronie.service does not exist
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You could try installing it manually and then starting it.

sudo pacman -Syu cronie
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Big thanks!

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