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I automated Linux backups with a simple bash script and cron (and it’s better than a GUI)

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.
Ars Technica

Consequences of setting system cron to run with bash instead of sh

I've got a few bash scripts on a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 boxes that back up some directories with rsync to a central server, then records in a log file the success or failure of the operations and ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Am I being run by cron?

Have you ever wanted to force a script to act differently when it is invoked by cron? If the script is run interactively, for example, you might want the script to prompt the user for some information ...