On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM, GeraldCC <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi To All,
> I think this may have been asked in the dim and distant past, but as I have
> many drive failures, at unexpected times, I now have started backing up my
> home folder regularly. My question is this.....is it posible to do the
> backup
> on boot? I have tried--onboot do this, but crontab does not like it. How
> can I
> do the backup on booting when I switch at odd times???
> Many thanks for you conciderd thoughts.
> Gerald
>


See "man 5 crontab" you can use the term "@reboot" to Run once, at startup.

(This is from a Ubuntu 8.10 server)

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