my automatic home backup thingy works! a few weeks ago, i made a crontab and put in a command line to compress and back up my /home and /music directories to the external hard disk on the 1st and 15th of every month…

i just checked the external hard disk, and it was THERE! 😀

now all i’ve got to do is figure out how to move my /home directory… i’ve got some instructions that claim to be how to do it, but i don’t see anywhere where it is actually moved, and i still haven’t been able to figure out how to edit /etc/fstab accurately…

but that’s all part of the “fun” of running an open source operating system… 8)