Mac Pro - Scheduled tasks in OSX ?

l!m!t · l!m!t #1 (**permalink**)

01-19-2007, 03:06 AM

Hi I just purchased my Macbook pro and am new to OSX.. What I need is to setup some sort of "task" that would copy a folder to another directory every night at 1:am. Anyone know how I can do this or any programs? .. its basically just for making a backup of my files.

Any help would be great.

NanoBite · NanoBite #2 (**permalink**)

01-19-2007, 03:08 AM

G'day l!m!t.

Have you looked into Automator?

l!m!t · l!m!t #3 (**permalink**)

01-19-2007, 03:43 AM

Hi Thanks for the help!

I am able to get it to copy with automator just not sure how to get it to be "recurring" (everyday at 1:00.)

Thanks again!

MacsWork · MacsWork #4 (**permalink**)

01-20-2007, 08:19 AM

Save your Automator workflow as an iCal plugin

mac57 · mac57 #5 (**permalink**)

01-20-2007, 02:08 PM

You may also wish to have a look at crontooie, at:

http://quicksilver.caup.washington.e...ware/Crontooie

Cron is a widely used unix scheduler that will run a particular command at a particular time, usually every day, every hour, once a week... that sort of stuff. Since Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, a unix variant, it comes with cron.

cron is normally a command line utility in the unix world, but for Macs, there are a variety of GUI interfaces. Crontooie, above, is one such interface.

cron is simple, easy to use, and VERY effective. You may wish to consider it.

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Member Since: Apr 29, 2006 Location: St. Somewhere Posts: 4,547 Mac Specs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, 120 GB SSD, 500 GB HDD	01-20-2007, 02:08 PM You may also wish to have a look at crontooie, at: http://quicksilver.caup.washington.e...ware/Crontooie Cron is a widely used unix scheduler that will run a particular command at a particular time, usually every day, every hour, once a week... that sort of stuff. Since Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, a unix variant, it comes with cron. cron is normally a command line utility in the unix world, but for Macs, there are a variety of GUI interfaces. Crontooie, above, is one such interface. cron is simple, easy to use, and VERY effective. You may wish to consider it. My Macs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, Power Macintosh 7500/100 My iStuff: 32 GB iPhone 4, 30 GB iPod Video, 16 GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS 8.6, openSUSE 10.3, Win XP I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
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l!m!t #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 12	01-19-2007, 03:06 AM Hi I just purchased my Macbook pro and am new to OSX.. What I need is to setup some sort of "task" that would copy a folder to another directory every night at 1:am. Anyone know how I can do this or any programs? .. its basically just for making a backup of my files. Any help would be great.
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NanoBite #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 4,714	01-19-2007, 03:08 AM G'day l!m!t. Have you looked into Automator?
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Member Since: May 22, 2005 Location: Closer than you think. Posts: 2,074 Mac Specs: Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3	01-20-2007, 08:19 AM Save your Automator workflow as an iCal plugin
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