[LUNA] (ana)cron question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

I have several boxen on my LAN, all running some form of linux or *BSD. 
I want some of them to backup configuration files and/or /etc and/or the 
whole root fs for themselves & other LAN boxen periodically, probably 
weekly. I read the man page on my FC14-x86_64 box (soon to be upgraded 
to CentOS-6, so don't start ;-) ) & have a question. It looks like I 
want root to do the backing up so as to have access to all the stuff 
under /etc or /. That box uses anacron to take care of that for the 
system. I want to add to what it is doing, in a fashion which doesn't 
interfere w/ system operations & gets preserved across OS upgrades. I 
kinda expected some sort of crontab.local (following rc.local), but no 
such capability seems to exist. How do I go about scheduling these 
backups for the various machines which will be doing the backing-up, 
starting w/ the linux box ? I am planning to schedule rsync's to do the 
actual backing up, I just need to figure out how to interleave that job 
w/ other stuff the OS is doing on its own, w/o interfering w/ whatever 
else is going on. TIA for any pointers & have a good one.


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