Re: Anacron question

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On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 09:23 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> On 7/18/24 00:12, Frederic Muller wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Following up on a old question of mine about daily backup tools I
> > did 
> > follow the advice and am using borg successfully. So thank you for
> > that: 
> > very easy to setup and works great.
> > 
> > However wanting to do that daily automatically from my laptop to a
> > local 
> > network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10
> > minutes 
> > after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to
> > anacron.
> How about a systemd timer that is fired fired 10 minutes after boot. 
> Its ExecStart could call a script that checks for a touched file ( a 
> semaphore ).  If the semaphore is not from today it would call the 
> backup program.  On successful completion it would refresh the
> semaphore.

Essentially what I said, but I think a crontab "@reboot" line is easier
to set up.

poc
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