Scheduled Backups of Home Directory

[Scott J. Henson]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> I want to start running scheduled backups of my home directory.  I
> have my eye on writing a bash script to mount my second hard drive
> (ext3 format) and then run rsync on /home.
> 

Might I suggest a few alternates?  If your using gnome
sbackup or hubackup and if your using kde, I see something
called keep is available.

Since you are looking to mount external media, hubackup
might be the most effective.