Automatic BackupFiles

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 17:59:50 UTC 2006


Ranjith VRS wrote:
> Hi Friends
> I am new to Linux. I am using FC-5. Is there any script or any method to take backup of all files inside home directory automatically.
> Right now i doing manually. It is little bit pain. Everyday before leaving i am spending half an hour for that. 
> Forgive me if this question already discussed. 
> Ranjith

You can put all the commands for your backup in a script and schedule 
the script to run as a cron job. Alternatively, if you don't have a 
fixed time for backup, you can run the script manually.

For more about cron...
# man cron

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Vivek J. Patankar

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