You can easily do this using a crontab entry, and a simple shell script.
Write your script to zip, tar, gzip, or some combination thereof that
compresses the folders in question, then copies the file to a
location of your choice. Then, after that, create a crontab entry
that will simply execute the script as often as you like.
Cron is part of unix, so it exists on every mac running osx, whether
it's a server version or not, so anyone can use it.
I'm actually (slightly) surprised it isn't mentioned more when folks
ask these kinds of questions. Even on the osx forums and other
discussion groups that turn up when you google for answers, cron is
rarely mentioned as a scheduling option.
Odd, but there it is. :)
Anyhow, You already have a solution, but this one is just another
option for those who are on a budget, or don't want to use funds to
backup a single file/folder/drive/some combination thereto. :)
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