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Asked: 2018-07-12 06:03:50 +0800 CST

How to backup every hour with Dejadup?

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I love Dejadup but I really want to be able to backup every hour or half an hour. I do a lot of work with files on my computer so I would need such an option. I believe the only way to do it is to schedule tasks like dejadup-backup every hour or so, but how can I do that on Ubuntu 18.04?

Thanks!

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  1. You can launch a deja-dup backup with the command deja-dup --backup.

    With a cron job, you can automatically execute that command every so much time. This Askubuntu question provides stepwise instructions on how you can set up a cronjob.

    For cron, you need the full path name to the application you want to run. You can find out the full path of deja-dup with the command:

    $ which deja-dup
/usr/bin/deja-dup

    To launch deja-dup as a cron job, we will thus use /usr/bin/deja-dup in this example.

    To edit the crontab file for adding or editing a job, one uses the command crontab -e. This opens the crontab file in an editor, typically nano. You need to add one line for a job. In this case, to have your cornjob run every 30 minutes, your line may read

    */30 * * * * /usr/bin/deja-dup --backup
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