Cron question

[randyv]

J.L. Coenders wrote:

>Hi all,
>I want to make a backup every night by rsyncing everything to a second disk. I 
>have worked out that you need to do this with cron. I have looked into cron 
>by man cron and man contab, and I searched the archive for this, but I can't 
>get a solid clue how to do it. 
>I found out that crontab -e edits the cron information, but I am not very good 
>at vim and do not really know what to do with it.
>
>Can anyone give me a clue?
>
>- Jeroen
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try checking out this article, excellent site by the way... ;-)

/http://fedoranews.org/mweber/rsync/rsync_intro.shtml/