benefits of defining cron jobs per location in autorestic config vs running the command via cron directly?

[arpitgupta]

I am trying to understand what the pro/con's are of using the os level cron to schedule all the backup's needed vs defining the cron configs in auto restic configs.

I understand the former case will require multiple entries in the crontab on my system. Is it just a personal choice or are there benefits of defining the cron in autorestic configs that I am missing?