yes, that is EVIL that -e and -r are next to each other on the keyboard and -r doesn't confirm. I have conditioned my self to put a 2-second pause before hitting ENTER after typing "crontab -X" to make sure i did 'e' and not 'r'.

My more robust (than double-checking my typing) solution was to add these two cron entries:

0 1 * * * /usr/bin/crontab -l > /home/myname/archive/backup/crontab/dr
+w.cron
0 5 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate --state /home/myname/.logrotate.status /
+home/myname/.logrotate
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And this ~/.logrotate entry (i actually have a bunch of other stuff in there too):

/home/myname/archive/backup/crontab/drw.cron
{
        rotate 28
        daily
        compress
}
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