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The Schedules tab is cron for your server. Each schedule is a collection of tasks that run on a cron expression.

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Creating a schedule

  1. Click New Schedule.
  2. Give it a name (e.g. Nightly restart).
  3. Set the cron expression - minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week. The UI defaults to standard 5-field cron.
  4. Toggle Only when server is online if it shouldn’t run while stopped.
  5. Toggle Enabled when you’re ready for it to fire.
  6. Save.

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Tasks

Open the schedule and add one or more tasks. Each task is one of:
  • Send command - push a string into the server console (e.g. say Restarting in 5 minutes).
  • Send power action - start, restart, stop, or kill.
  • Create backup - trigger a backup. Optionally pass an ignored-files list.
Tasks within a schedule run in order, with an optional delay (seconds) between each.

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Common patterns

Cron: 0 4 * * * (every day at 04:00)
  1. Send command - say Restarting in 5 minutes
  2. Wait 240 seconds
  3. Send command - say Restarting in 60 seconds
  4. Wait 60 seconds
  5. Send power action - restart
Cron: 0 * * * *
  1. Send command - save-all
Cron: 30 3 * * *
  1. Create backup - ignore logs/* and cache/*
Cron runs in UTC by default on Lumix Solutions nodes. If you need local time, calculate the offset or open a ticket to confirm your node’s timezone.