On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM, <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0800, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab >>> >>> * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target >> >> That will run your rsync at *every minute* of 10pm! Clearly not what >> you want. Try > > Actually I probably had 60! Would make more sense. > > - aurf Nahh, you were crashing first. If it ever approaches taking a day, or you worry about starting two at the same time, you might consider using rsnapshot to manage night/hourly/daily snapshots, and/or to provide locking to avoid running two at once.