On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:14:15PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me > if I've got it right.
> 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev / |cpio --create >/dev/st0/root.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /boot |cpio --create>/dev/st0/boot.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /tmp |cpio --create >/dev/st0/tmp.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /usr |cpio --create >/dev/st0/usr.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /var |cpio --create >/dev/st0/var.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /home |cpio --create >/dev/st0/home.cpio These will be started all at the same time, I doubt that is what is intended here. Better put these in a script, so that they will be executed sequentially. Then put the script in the crontab. I may be horribly wrong in many unexpected ways though. BTW, not much need to backup /usr in debian, apart from /usr/local. The same for /tmp, why do you back that up? It looks weird, if you actually have stuff in there that needs backup, you are probably in for surprises at the next boot. Cheers, Joost
