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Me need export crontab tasks to a file. How I can export contents of crontab to a dump file? I need it because I'm switching usernames and do not want to lose the data in the crontab.

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Create crontab backup file (export cron tasks):

crontab -l > /some/crontab.bak

Import it from new user:

crontab /some/crontab.bak

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