Laptop Backups With anacron

Courtesy Linux Today  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 14:34

Tip of the Trade: "Cron is great for servers and desktops that are always on, but if you want to schedule a backup (or indeed any other job) on a laptop or other machine that may not always be on, try anacron instead."


 

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