cron and psync.
If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look
some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to
do a little song and dance to make sure the mac is awake (for a long enough period) when
cron fires.
Jerry
On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Greetings,
I try to back up my system once a week. I have a firewire disk drive that I use for this purpose. I have been using the Lacie software that came with it. Before Panther, I used to be able just to plug it in and run it under my own id. Now I need to log in as root to run it. Which means I can't do anything else until it finishes, and it takes about 40 minutes.
I am looking to do something more automatic.
Questions:
1. Can iSync be used for backups? I'm not sure if I have iSync unless it is standard in Panther.
2. Otherwise, has someone wrote a perl program to do this that I can run in cron.
Thank you so much,
Joe.
