Use Below command to setup cron as service
$ cron-config Do you want to remove or reinstall it (yes/no) yes Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ ] ntsec Do you want the cron daemon to run as yourself? (yes/no) no Do you want to start the cron daemon as a service now? (yes/no) yes
Next use crontab to create the sceduled task
$ crontab -e 0 0 * * * rsync -avz --delete --password-file /etc/rsync.pwd /cygdrive/g/www/ rsync://[email protected]:/Public/www
This syncs my laptop with my NAS every day at midnight. I also have a task in my windows Task Manager to wake the laptop from sleep at that time to do the sync. So I can sleep, without worry.
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