On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:51 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> The housekeeping gets done automatically, or do I need to set
> something up?
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On my PC one can see the housekeeping that in done by cron, in file
/etc/cron.daily [ my system is very old . . . yours will prolly be
slightly different ] . . . things like log rotation - cleaning old log
files.
the sort of housekeeping that you will wish to set up for your self :-
you can edit cron, using the command as root :-
crontab -e
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~ maybe, you will like to make yourself a series of small bash scripts
to be executed by cron, for automated backups, say, using RSYNC
you might like cron to tar.gz your home directory at 9 am and 6 pm each
day, and date-stamp the archives to a separate backup directory.
maybe you want cron to backup your data files to a separate partition
each 30 minutes.
~ maybe, 2 nights a week, you might like to have cron "rsync" your
whole system to a partition on a reserve HardDisk
~ that way, when Lightning, or, Murphy strikes, you will be smelling of
violets :))
best rgds
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