Go to a shell window and type man cron.

Use what you learn there to schedule the backup, and use Milan's code as
the script that you execute

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:13 +0000, jobrian_t wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im a bit new in Firebird specially on Linux. I read several articles
> pertaining the use of gbak. My problem is I do not know how to
> automate it to run on a daily basis. I wish I could backup the
> database using the date as its filename, something like this
> DB = employee.gdb
> Backup = employeeAug102005.gbk
> employeeAug112005.gbk
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jobrian