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) -- Craig Ayliffe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
