Hi i wud like to know where i could find a backup scripts to run with cron.
All the script has to do is delete a backup scsi drive and copy the latest folder in to.im new to linux and i wud like to implement that on a Red 9 Server ,it is a file server.
thanks

Welcome to LQ.

I'm not sure what you want that couldn't be done with:
#!/bin/bash
# Remove old directory
rm -rf /path/to/remove
# Copy latest directory
cp -r /path/to/source /path/to/dest

Presumably "yes, of course," but he wants to do it with cron.

On my somewhat-old "Red Hat 9-3/4," there is an /etc/cron.daily directory and anything in there will be executed daily. (The default /etc/crontab does that, with other directories for "hourly" and "monthly.") The desired commands could be put into an appropriate script-file in that location. Remember to mark it "executable," by whatever user-ID is used to run cron.

As far as backing-up goes, I tend to use a more sophisticated tool like amanda, because I not-only want a reliable way to back-up the information but also an easy way to restore them.

thanks alot.