Cron question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 11.09.2004 schrieb J.L. Coenders um 20:15:

> 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.

> - Jeroen

"man 5 crontab" is the key for setting up proper crontab entries.

Alexander


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