Hi, No it is not working. I copied the code in the backup.sh file and put into /etc/cron.hourly ------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh target=$HOME/org/backupOrg mkdir -p "$target" && \ find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.org' ! -path "$target/*" \ -exec cp -t "$target" {} + echo "Daily Org Files Backup Successful: $(date)" >> /home/USERNAME/mybackupOrg.log ------------------------------------------- And then changed the crontab hourly setting to 26. /etc/crontab # m h dom mon dow user command 26 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly ------------------------------------------- Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it that $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ? Thanks ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-17 23:55:12 +0530] wrote: > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > mkdir -p /home/USERNAME/org/backup && \ > > find $HOME -type f -name '*\.org' ! -path "/home/USERNAME/org/backup/*" \ > > -exec cp -t /home/USERNAME/org/backup/ \{\} \; > > How about this: > > > #!/bin/sh > > target=$HOME/org/backup > mkdir -p "$target" && \ > find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.org' ! -path "$target/*" \ > -exec cp -t "$target" {} + >