[Klug-general] rsync and konqueror

MacGyveR macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk
Sun May 29 08:29:56 UTC 2011


On Sunday 29 May 2011, sharon kimble wrote:
> AT the moment I'm backing up to an external USB 500 gig drive which is
> formatted ext3 using rsync which works very well. I currently invoke it as
> 'rsync -av /home/boztu/ /media/disk/20110521/' an djust change the
> date for each successive day. i now want to do this via a cron job but
> am at a loss as to how to change the date for it. Can anyone suggest a
> way in which this can be done please?
>
> there is probably a simple answer to this although its hard to explain!
> I've added konqueror to the file opening when you right-click a file, but
> even when i open a file from konqueror it opens a new window of one.
> How do i get it to stay focused on open instance and not keep
> spawning other windows please?
>
> This is with KDE 4.4.5 under debian 6
>
> Thanks
> Sharoin.
>
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When using a cron you will probably have to mount the drive yourself first 
such as mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd etc..





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