scheduling backup on cron

[adeday]

I am new to Linux...I got a question on backup

I just insalled a tape drive on a lInux box and the O/S saw it fine when it booted.

How do I schedule backup on cron on red hat Linux...like backing up the whole /export/home every night.

Thanks in advance

Thanks

 

[RobJordan]

I'm not sure the backup command to run on linux,
but here is the crontab format.
I would also make sure you put the absolute path
to the command line, and test the backup command
from the command line prior to using it in crontab.

minute hour monthday month weekday command
# this would run an ls command every day at 8:00 am
# and capture the standard out and error in a file
0 8 * * * /ur/bin/ls >> /tmp/ls.out 2>&1

to edit your crontab...
crontab -e
to show your current crontab...
crontab -l
Robert G. Jordan
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