[nzlug] When back-ups work

[Robert Connolly]

On 07/04/2008, Johann Schoonees <j.schoonees at irl.cri.nz> wrote:
>
> I tend to leave my main computer on 24-7 because I think powering down for
> periods less than a week is probably counter-productive, and I have cron
> jobs downloading sharemarket data once a week.
>

I tend to hibernate/restore at every opportunity, mainly because my suspend
to ram doesn't work. I don't really find it that much of a problem as the
process is pretty quick on my machine.

Have you tried anacron for your cron jobs?

Rob