An application for Scheduling Coping of files/Folders in Linux/Java [closed]

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I Simply searching for a simple application in Linux/Java that i can schedule copying of files/folders at specified Hour of night....

Answer 1

Just set it up as a scheduled cron job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab

The scheduled job can then run a simple shell script with the copy/etc commands.

Answer 2

You can use a cronjob http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5

This would run 5 minutes after midnight every day crontab -e

5 0 * * * cp /dir/* tmp/dir/