There is a lot you can do with crontab events.
"man crontab" will tell you the format of the file. It's fairly straight
forward.
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Callahan wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:52:27 -0500
> From: Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: linux-tape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: automatic backup
>
> Just wondering, without RTFM, is someone can tell me how to use cron and
> taper to run automatic backups. I want to do a full system backup once a
> week and a dailey backup of only changed files. I have never used cron
> before, not really sure how.
> Thanks for any help
> Brad
>