storage drive

[torpedo91]

i want automatically backup some folders every hour to a storage drive on my network .. would would i go about setting this up

[bigtomrodney]

Are you looking to have the folders mirrored every hour or do you want multiple snapshots, each being a particular hour?

I'm assuming you'd want to mirror to the external drive. In that case I'd take a look at rsync and cron.

rsync will allow you to backup/mirror with any options you want. It really is quite powerful. Assuming you have the drive mounted at /mnt/share the command would look like this

rsync -uav /home/user/folder /mnt/share/folder

cron can run this every hour for you, check out the crontab man pages. It's not as difficult as it first looks...

man crontab