[kde-linux] recommended backups scheduler ?

[Paul Smith]

On 8/31/05, Rod Butcher <rbutcher at hyenainternet.com> wrote:
> Can anybody recommend an automated scheduling utility for disk backups,
> perhaps like kcron ? Something that would raise a warning if a backup
> failed, and would also force me to run k3b to make a backup to cd
> monthly ? i.e. something that would make sure that backups got made even
> if I forgot ?
> thanks

You can do your scheduling, Rod, with remind (a small but effective tool):

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_remind.php

Paul