Use crontab (unix command, which executes a given script automatically in
given times) to invoke a shell script... Maybe this can be done in perl as
well, I don't know, but I'd use a simple shell script for this kind of jobs.
Hope this helps,
Joni
-----Original Message-----
From: Pavan Kumar Hotha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 July 2001 11:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: automating database dumps
Hi All,
I am totally new to perl and I want to automate a task in sybase, I
need to take backup of 30 databases on a sybase server and compress them and
store them in any of the local drives, so that I can take a backup of the
same, can any one kindly suggest me how to automate this.
sybase server is running on solaris
Thanks
Pavan.
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