Backing up a specified folder from a Windows partition

Hello all,
Since Time Machine seems unable to back up anything from Windows partitions I thought I could create some script that would copy the required folder from the Windows to my Mac partition thus making it accessible to Time Machine. Can you please tell me how to make a script run on schedule (say, once every day, or every time Mac OS X boots)?
Thanks in advance,
Anton

You might check here in the AppleScripting forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
or here in the Automator forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1261

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