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 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
