Cron equivalent in Windows

[hobbes2112]

I am used to just setting up cron jobs in *nix to run things....does something like this exist for Windows?

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[Grizzly]

NT has always offered the "AT scheduler" which will run a given batch file or application whenever you would like it to. For example, I wrote a batch file which Zips up my Webroot and Database tables every night at 4am, and copies it all to a network drive. It's kind of a cheeseball backup system, but it works pretty well for me.

Anyways, in order to schedule my batch file all I had to say was:

at 4:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su "D:\WebBackup.bat"


Read more about this utility here:
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articl...rticleID=15153

[hobbes2112]

Thanks, I will look into that...

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[Shazbat]

The newer versions of IE (5.0+ IIRC) install an updated version of the scheduler on NT 4.0 called 'Task Scheduler' It can still work the same way as the old AT scheduler, but also includes some new features including the ability to run jobs under different user accounts where previously whatever account the Scheduler service was started with ran the scheduled jobs.

[Moridin]

There is also a graphical tool called WinAT for setting up AT jobs, but I don't know if it is available for download. I got it through technet.

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[Shazbat]

WinAT is part of the NT Resource Kit, I got it from an MSDN subscription so I have no idea if it's available for download either...