I am not sure if it’s a good idea to be running this as root…I’ll do more experiments and try to find a better solution. To get around this I moved the above cron job from my user to root crontab via sudo EDITOR=gedit crontab -e. In the end, for some reason, it seems like only root can delete files from my external NTFS drive….but it worked when I performed the delete manually or from the program. When this script ran I received errors about “Unable to find or create trash directory.” Googling it looked like I was missing the trash dir. I was also successful in putting this command in a shell script and running the shell script from cron - just in case you want to do something more complicated. Also, you can specify your editor as EDITOR=gedit crontab -e if you don’t want to use vi or nano or whatever is your default bash editor. In case you don’t know, crontab -e opens the file allowing you to add or edit the user-level cron jobs. /home/joe/FreeFileSyncBackup/SyncSettings.ffs_batch is my batch file that I created and saved within the FreeFileSync program./usr/bin/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync is the location of the program.
0 3 * * * is the frequency that I want the cron to run, every night at 3am FreeFileSync is a free backup app that helps you compare and synchronize files and folders on Windows, Linux, and OS X.0 3 * * * env DISPLAY=:1.0 /usr/bin/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/joe/FreeFileSyncBackup/SyncSettings.ffs_batch ĭo cloning softwares keep file dates? (created, modified, etc)īut to answer the question I'm guessing you are asking: there are plenty of applications that copy files from one mounted file system to another. This is the simplest one that Ive come across, and Im sure it will be for you as well.Text for re. If you want to be extra careful, use something like this. Going to transfer around 400 gigabytes of files from an external HD to an internal HD, how do I proceed? It watches folders and syncs any changes to another drive.
Please HELP me from ever loosing my precious data!!! Subsequently select the files that need to be sync and mark them as 'Update/Add'. FreeFileSync is the best backup and synchronization. Using FreeFileSync, the present approach is to compare the folders at the top level, initially select 'Do nothing' for all as the default action. File: freefilesync schedule Date: Size: 26.98 MB Type of compression: zip Total downloads: 7585 By: updoccomp File checked: Kaspersky Download speed: 6 Mb/s time: author: gramimka freefilesync schedule : FreeFileSync: Detail: 2820785 - Schedule sync.
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