Schedule backups at shut down

I'm one of those who shuts down my Mac at the end of the day. Is there a way that I can have my Mac run a back up program when I select shut down. I want to be able to tell it to shut down and then walk away and have it automatically run the program before it shuts down.

If not you might try and Carbon Copy Cloner ,free for both cloning backups, I believe. Or, SuperDuper free for clonng $29 to use for all features. But Prosoft makes excellent software and it would be hard to believe the feature isn't there, somewhere...
Not to worry about "credit", it's not the PC you're on. That feature in Discussions is temporally disabled.
-mj
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