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Old 03-03-2011, 11:50 PM   #1
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How do you create a cron file that will regularly perform a level 0 backup once per month?

How do you create a cron file that will regularly perform a level 0 backup once per month?
 
Old 03-04-2011, 10:34 AM   #2
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How do you create a cron file that will regularly perform a level 0 backup once per month?
¿what are you going to backup?
¿entire disk?
¿your home directory?

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Old 03-04-2011, 10:44 AM   #3
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Create a script to do the backup, then create a cronjob to execute the script once a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

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