Re: [Sheflug] Automating jobs with cron

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:11:12AM +0100, Sammy wrote:
> I got no decent info on how to setup the cron i would like it to 
> back up file automaticly from the harddisk to the zip, will i need to write an
> batch program to execute the back up procedure or, is the a way of writing a
> line that dose the same thing in the cron tab?
 
 	You can probably do it with a one-liner. In fact, there is a
program called "bu" (rather old) which I used to use for the task of
NFS-backing up files through a crontab entry. If you can't be bothered
with bu (and i can't remember where to get hold of it), the tar info
page provides all the info you need.

José
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