Periodic Jobs (ala cron), esp. for backups
 

There's 3 things I'd like to have my tablet do automatically, on a regular basis:

1) run the built in "Backup/Restore" program, removing the oldest "auto-*" backup, and making a new one named "auto-YY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS" where those are the applicable parts of the current date and time.

2) I have a script I wrote to more diligently backup parts of the /home/user directory, I'd like to run that periodically as well.

3) I have started using netvouz.com as my place for storing backups, but the built-in opera doesn't really work with the javascript buttons that netvous supplies for automatically adding bookmarks to netvouz instead of the local bookmarks. What would be nice, instead, is a way to automatically export and upload the N800 bookmarks to netvouz (it has a mode for only recognizing new bookmarks), and then automatically downloading and importing the bookmarks from netvouz.


Is there anything like cron for the N800 and 2007 OS? I looked and didn't find anything immediate (no cron, no crontab command, no /etc/crontab file, no /var/cron). To some extent, that makes sense to not have cron.. it's a little device, and it may not be turned on at the right time to catch croon jobs.

But maybe there's an application out there that does a "perform this task as soon after time X passes, with optional regular repeating of the task" or something ... esp. if it has some higher level functionality, like the bookmark exporting, and the Backup/Restore app control.

Re: Periodic Jobs (ala cron), esp. for backups
 

Re: Periodic Jobs (ala cron), esp. for backups
 

Aaah, thanks. I'll take a look at it :-)