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. -- E-mail address: james | "Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, @westexe.demon.co.uk | indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." | -- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times