diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
index 539886c4d9..a7e6e8f387 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   copy: src=crawler.cron dest=/etc/cron.d/mm2_crawler.cron
   tags:
   - config
+  when: env != 'staging'
 
 - name: install configuration file
   template: src={{ roles }}/mirrormanager/crawler/files/mirrormanager.conf