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Trigger an ad hoc run from an existing CronJob.

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Section: Jobs and CronJobs

Create job from cronjob

bash
bash
kubectl create job --from=cronjob/nightly-backup manual-backup-20260305 -n ops
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Trigger an ad hoc run from an existing CronJob.

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