On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:37:56 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> One word:  cron. :)
> 
> Not in my community.  That's a good way to fry the backup disk.

Depends on the options used.  For example, if the purpose is to back up 
data, using it to mirror data would be counterproductive.

But the data needs to get on the backup drive somehow - using cron + rsync 
gets it there with a minimum of hassle and only writes the changes.

Jim

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