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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie From: ivie@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Challenge Message-ID: <1993Jul8.202139.69823@cc.usu.edu> Date: 8 Jul 93 20:21:39 MDT References: <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 15 In article <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu>, GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg) writes: > > Here's my problem > 3) I'd then like the cron file to automatically ftp to our ftp server > (which happens to get backed up regularly). I have my system back important stuff up nightly to a tar file on an NFS-mounted directory. The procedure is: mount the directory, save the old backups (I rename them to *.tar_old), make new backups, and dismount the directory. For what it's worth, Roger Ivie ivie@cc.usu.edu