From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 14:29:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt091n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.47.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29275 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 2398 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Nov 1998 22:29:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: victor medina cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ayudaaaa In-Reply-To: <199811081739.JAA00975@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, victor medina wrote: > Tengo problemas para programar un backup y hacer que se ejecute > periodicamente. Me dijeron que con crontab se podia, pero no he logrado > que funcione. estoy haciendo backup de /usr/home con el comando tar con > gzip, esto me funciona bien. el problema es hacer que se ejecute > automaticamente en determinados periodos de tiempo. I understand enough Spanish to figure out what you're trying to say. However, I don't speak nearly enough to be able to write back in Spanish, so I hope you speak English or well (or can get this translated). It sounds like you want to automate your backup process to run from a crontab. As it is right now, do you run a tar/gzip command from the command line, or do you have a script that runs it? I would recommend writing a script to back up what you want backed up, and then set up a cron job to run that script daily, or weekly, or however often you want it to run. I'm assuming you know how to use crontab, but if not, check the man page for crontab ("man crontab") for a description of the fields. Buena suerte! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message