Saving work automajicly
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| Author | Content |
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| ColonelPanik Aug 14, 2007 4:08 PM EDT |
My dear wife is doing course/class development for an online
university/high school. Many, many hours a day.
She needs a program to auto-save to a USB HD
as she works. Of course she is using Linux, Ubuntu Feisty. What do you know? What do you use? |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 14, 2007 4:27 PM EDT |
I'm sure you could write up a cron job that would save the contents of a specific directory to a USB-connected hard drive at regular intervals. What do you think, O bash experts? |
| Abe Aug 14, 2007 6:13 PM EDT |
for disk to disk backup, cpio is a good tool. Check this link for full documentation. It has some examples too. Like Steven suggested, use a cron job to trigger it or launch it on demand. http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/cpio.html |
| ColonelPanik Aug 15, 2007 4:45 AM EDT |
Thank you, that sure covers the majic part. I was hoping for more of the "auto" but we will put our noses to the command line and see what happens. |
| jdixon Aug 15, 2007 7:00 AM EDT |
> I was hoping for more of the "auto"... As they said, use cron. man cron and man crontab should give you all the info you need, though not perhaps in an as easy to digest format as you would like. |
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