Scheduled Task Question

[cmaurand (Curtis Maurand)]

I see that there are pre-defined scheduled tasks in the system. Is there any way to add a custom task (bash script) or does that need to be done the old fashoned way by adding it, manually, to /etc/crontab?

Thanks,
Curtis

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@cmaurand Welcome to the Rockstor community.

We don’t as yet have custom scheduled tasks but we have the following issue open for this:

https://github.com/rockstor/rockstor-core/issues/1036

part of which has been completed by @Flyer with regard to scheduled shutdown / resume but we don’t as yet have user script scheduling capability via the Web-UI.

You might also like to have a look at the referenced forum thread (within that issue) where a number of forum regulars discussed this same feature:

Feature Request: Add Scheduled Task type for periodic rock-on restart in WebUI

I agree that a more scheduling capabilities should be available, however I’m unsure of viable it is to maintain - mainly because everybody will have different ideas as to what they want to schedule. If it were to happen, I think it would likely need to be a full-blown cron editor, perhaps with a share function or repo (similar to rockons with docker containers) that people could easily add, for the less advanced users. Personally, I’d like to see a lot more power-user capabilities in the syste…

Hope that helps.

[cmaurand (Curtis Maurand)]

Thank you. I’m actually using this system to back up a windows server. I installed CIFS-Utils can mount the drive and rsync contents over from it. That’s a fairly simple bash script to mount the drive and rsync it’s contents from the server. would that I could snapshot the windows machine, but I digress.

Thanks for your reply. Will do this by editing the crontab