Re: Cron question

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J.L. Coenders wrote:
> 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.

You've been given lots of good advice, but no-one's pointed out that
cron is already set up to run every script in /etc/cron.daily at 4.20
each morning. So just put a script in there.

A basic PATH is already set up for you: make sure that the script is
executable.

Hope this helps,

James.

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