On Thursday, September 30, 2010 01:52:51 pm Craig Ayliffe wrote:
> 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)
Hi Craig,
The @reboot only works if the system comes to a login screen, otherwise it
does not function correctly.
Many thanks for coming back, I hope my experiments be be useful to other in
the list.
Gerald
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