I am completely lost with this timed backups. I wrote a script to allow for backing up SHARES, I now have to have it so that I can do daily and weekly backups. I know that I have to put a link in the cron.d file and I know that I have to do something with crontab. I looked at the man 5 crontab, but I have know idea what I am doing. Does anyone know where I woiuld put the script to allow for timed backups. Does it go in the cron.d file or something? Sorry, first time doing this. I know that the code is:
and so on, but I don't know where I am supposed to be putting this.

Any help,

Cheers,

Dennis

Try "crontab -e" to edit the crontab for the user.

I am trying and it still doesn't seem to be working. I have been looking around and it says that there shoiuld be a directory /etc/scheduler/cronstabs/"user" but it is not there. Am I suppsed to create it or something? I have found the crontab file, but it is not what I am looking for. Any ideas???

Like stickman said, the crontab file is what you are looking for..
Especially if you are testing...
As root do crontab -e and enter the data as per your code snippet..

There is a series of directories for placing daily, monthly, hourly etc cron jobs into..
Try /etc/cron.daily/, /etc/cron.hourly/ etc
/etc/cron.d/ is for shorter than hourly jobs..

Different distros may use different locations tho' depending on the cron programme installed.