[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I do my laptop backup using cron without systemd.

I have an rsync job that runs a script twice every hour between 8 am
and 11 pm. It just does rsync to the server which gets backed up
daily.
Inside the script, there is a timestamp file containing the date this
is completed.

Subsequent invocations of the script do not do a backup if they find
the timestamp file.

So no matter what time I power on the laptop, it gets backed up at
least once a day.

Works regardless of the specific desktop I am using, or lackthereof.
If I switch from KDE to xubuntu, this will continue to work.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:
> This is great!
>
> I set up a cronjob to perform a btrfs scrub, snapshot, and ship the backup
> to my NAS. However, I need to either remember to leave it running overnight
> on Saturday (which is less than ideal), or  schedule it more often than I'd
> prefer to ensure I get at least one backup throughout the week.
>
> I already had the AC and network checks done. This seems to be the missing
> link I didn't know I was looking for.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Here is a more positive experience of systemd, by somebody whose
>> opinion I trust a lot:
>>
>> http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/a_programmable_alarm_clock_using_systemd/
>>
>> --
>> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>>
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