Using rcp and cron to perform a scheduled network backup
April 14th, 2004
I recently set up a cron job on my PC to backup files from the PC to a network server every night. The technique uses SFU on the PC, rcp to copy the files to the network and cron to perform the backup at 3.15 every morning.
For a full description, see:
www.itauthor.com/unix_linux_shell/shell-backup-script.html
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