[NTLUG:Discuss] Backup

[Steve]

Patrick Parks wrote:

>   Hi all, I have a question that is probably trivial for some of you out 
> there. Is there a backup program, or something from the command line 
> that I could run, or possibly schedule to run a backup of a dir 
> containing files and dir's? The data that I want to backup is on my 
> laptop, and the place I want to back it up to is on my server (RH 7.1 on 
> both). Both are running NFS to see each other. Thanks in advance.


The simplest way that I can think of is using crontab which is a program 
that executes your commands at certain time intervals. See man crontab 
for more details.

Steve