On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:06:56PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I am running 5.1-release. > I have installed rsync from ports, and want to use it to archive. > I want to add an entry to cron so it runs nightly. I didn't quite > understand the man page when it came to arguments to the > command you are running. > > ie > 0 0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /working/ /backup/working > > I also want the output of the rsync command to go to a named file. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > -Darryl
Without consideration to the syntax of rsync, a line much like the one you have should work. For example: 0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dir /backup/dir 2>&1 /root/rsync.log This should run the specified command at 1AM every day of every week. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49
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