hello Travis I would just point out to you that although this is easy to you, many OSX users, (including myself), have no experience with UNIX or scripting. So they choose the other method instead.
I agree totally that the OS has the capability of doing what Chris wanted. But your assertion that it is "easy" is taking quite a lot for granted. At the moment I have to much happening to concentrate on this kind of thing properly. But I really would like to learn a bit more about this sort of thing myself. But please remember that not everybody comes from the same kind of computing background as you do. Lynne On 10 Sep 2011, at 03:46, Travis Siegel wrote: You can easily do this using a crontab entry, and a simple shell script. Write your script to zip, tar, gzip, or some combination thereof that compresses the folders in question, then copies the file to a location of your choice. Then, after that, create a crontab entry that will simply execute the script as often as you like. Cron is part of unix, so it exists on every mac running osx, whether it's a server version or not, so anyone can use it. I'm actually (slightly) surprised it isn't mentioned more when folks ask these kinds of questions. Even on the osx forums and other discussion groups that turn up when you google for answers, cron is rarely mentioned as a scheduling option. Odd, but there it is. :) Anyhow, You already have a solution, but this one is just another option for those who are on a budget, or don't want to use funds to backup a single file/folder/drive/some combination thereto. :) <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
