Crond runs multiple times

Hey there,
recently my CPU usage drew attention to my hourly backup script I use to back up my home drive. For some reason it used 30% cpu, and inspecting htop, it seemed that my backup script was running four times, and crond was doing so as well.

I installed the cronie package to get cron support.

If I now run ps -A | grep crond I can see five different crond instances. If I now stop the cronie service, it goes down by one.

Here, I inspected the service:

     CGroup: /system.slice/cronie.service
             ├─  44822 /usr/bin/CROND -n
             ├─  44824 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─ 404597 /usr/bin/CROND -n
             ├─ 404634 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─ 449440 /usr/bin/crond -n
             ├─1379258 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─1379259 ls -rt
             ├─1379260 wc -w
             ├─1379261 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─1379262 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─1379263 ls -rt
             ├─2407869 /usr/bin/CROND -n
             ├─2407931 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
             ├─3280947 /usr/bin/CROND -n
             └─3281037 /bin/sh /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh

Here is my crontab

>> maus@lolcat in ~ took 11s
∑  EDITOR=cat crontab -e
@hourly /home/maus/Documents/scripts/Backup/backup-home.sh
crontab: no changes made to crontab

Any idea what's going on here?

Thanks!

System:
  Kernel: 6.1.8-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: root=PARTUUID=fec66b8f-995b-8043-94b0-fcc9535362ba rw
    add_efi_memmap rootflags=subvol=@ initrd=@\boot\amd-ucode.img
    rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3 sysrq_always_enabled=1
    iommu=soft initrd=\@\boot\initramfs-linux-zen.img
  Desktop: Hyprland info: waybar vt: 1 dm: greetd Distro: Garuda Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: AX370-Gaming 3 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: AX370-Gaming 3-CF v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F50a
    date: 11/27/2019
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 2
    level: v3 note: check built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23)
    model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 576 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x64 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 2x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4000 high: 4041 min/max: 2200/3600 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 4039 2: 4036
    3: 4028 4: 3900 5: 4037 6: 4041 7: 4031 8: 3796 9: 4024 10: 4040 11: 4039
    12: 3992 bogomips: 86227
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Baffin [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm
    built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
    active: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67ff
    class-ID: 0300 temp: 39.0 C
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 22.1.7 compositor: Hyprland driver:
    X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 1
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 model: Apple Cinema HD Display serial: <filter>
    built: 2003 res: 1920x1200 dpi: 99 gamma: 1.2 size: 495x310mm (19.49x12.2")
    diag: 584mm (23") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung SyncMaster serial: <filter> built: 2007
    res: 1680x1050 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65")
    diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
  API: EGL/GBM Message: No known Wayland EGL/GBM data sources.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X]
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-1:2 v: kernel
    chip-ID: 0d8c:9700 pcie: gen: 3 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aae0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.3
    chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: C-Media USB Microphone type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Interface: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.64 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-4.1:6 chip-ID: 0a5c:21e8 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 2.11 TiB (71.2%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB
    size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD20EFRX-68EUZN0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A82 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 195.03 GiB size: 195.03 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 36.8 GiB (18.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 301 MiB size: 300.4 MiB (99.79%)
    used: 19.1 MiB (6.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 736.18 GiB size: 736.18 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 168.75 GiB (22.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 195.03 GiB size: 195.03 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 36.8 GiB (18.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 195.03 GiB size: 195.03 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 36.8 GiB (18.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.29 GiB used: 2.2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1500
Info:
  Processes: 378 Uptime: 5h 21m wakeups: 14 Memory: 31.29 GiB
  used: 6.61 GiB (21.1%) Init: systemd v: 252 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: pm: pacman
  pkgs: 1569 libs: 472 tools: yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: kitty
  inxi: 3.3.24
Garuda (2.6.14-1):
  System install date:     2023-01-08
  Last full system update: 2023-01-29 ↻
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager mkinitcpio
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Failed units:

Edit: 2023-01-29 ↻ neither did I update my system today nor did I refresh the mirrorlist - I think this is a little broken

switched back to a service. This is so cursed I don't even know where to begin

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