cron tar through NFS

[Vyeperman]

I'm looking to write a cron script that will tar up all my partitions then transfer them to anothor computer via NFS.
Q1: what is the best language to write it in? (hopefully not perl or something that will take awhile to learn)
Q2: Is there already a script out there that does this?
Thanks in advance
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-Vyeperman

[teknomage1]

First to answer number 2, there are a fair number of backup scripts out on the internet or even here on the forums, just search w/ the terms 'tar' and 'backup' . From there you just need to look in man cron for the syntax to get it to run at your desired interval.

to answer number one, the simplest way to write one is using shell script, take this bash example: