Serializing cronJob object is not working because of a circular reference

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Hi there, I am trying to serialize the cronJob object and then save the data into Redis so I can read all the jobs from there in the future but since the cronJob object has a circular reference I am unable to save it to Redis. is there a recommended way of serializing and parse cronJob object with circular reference?

What I have tried:

1. serialized the object with Node's util.inspect() but can't parse it back.
2. deep cloned the object, but this method removes all the cronTime reference which I don't wanna lose.

Here is what the returned cron job object looks like:

<ref *1> CronJob {
  context: [Circular *1],
  _callbacks: [ [AsyncFunction (anonymous)] ],
  onComplete: null,
  cronTime: {
    source: Moment<2020-08-12T22:35:00+03:00>,
    second: {},
    minute: {},
    hour: {},
    dayOfMonth: {},
    month: {},
    dayOfWeek: {},
    realDate: true
  },
  unrefTimeout: undefined,
  runOnce: true,
  running: true,
  _timeout: Timeout {
    _idleTimeout: 86363978,
    _idlePrev: [TimersList],
    _idleNext: [TimersList],
    _idleStart: 11613,
    _onTimeout: [Function: callbackWrapper],
    _timerArgs: undefined,
    _repeat: null,
    _destroyed: false,
    [Symbol(refed)]: true,
    [Symbol(asyncId)]: 158,
    [Symbol(triggerId)]: 0
  }
}