Can you run Automator workflows automatically, on a timer?

I created a workflow for backing up important files, and it's working just great.
However, I'd like the additional ease of having the workflow run on its own--every twelve hours, perhaps, instead of running it manually myself.
I don't see any settings or help topics that say I can do this. Can anyone help?

JD_Wright wrote:
I thought this solved my problem, but I need some more help.
I have set iCal to open my workflow on a schedule, but opening the workflow file doesn't make the program run. What I end up with is an opened Automator window waiting for me to press the run button.
I tried to select "run script" in iCal, but my workflow file is greyed out, as if it isn't a "script." (Not really sure what a script is here.)
Can someone give me just a little bit of a nudge over the finish line on this one?
don't save it as a workflow. save it as an ical alarm. you have to decide on this at the beginning. when you start automator or choose to create a new flow it gives you a pulldown screen where you can choose what kind of workflow to make. choose ical alarm. then you can use it as an ical alarm and it will correctly run automatically wt the alarm time.

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