It is the operating system that can provide such a service and MSys2 is not
an operating system.
Windows provides a task scheduler that you can easily use.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb736357(v=vs.85).aspx
Regards,
2017-12-01 7:36 GMT+01:00 Daniel Goldman <dgold...@ehdp.com>:
> pacman indicates to me that msys2 does not have crontab, using "pacman -Ss
> crontab" and "pacman -S crontab". Is that correct, that crontab is not
> included in msys2?
>
> My goal is to set up an automatic daily backup of a large number of files
> and directories on a windows 7 PC, by creating one or several zipped tar
> files, say "2017-11-30.tgz", and automatically copy the tar file(s) to a
> remote server. Any way to do that kind of automated backup using msys2? Or
> any suggestion about alternate method? I know there are free and commercial
> products for backing up windows computers, like mozyhome, or that I can
> backup to an external drive. I would just like a full daily backup to a
> remote server.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
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