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I have had a search, and oddly this question never seems to have been asked.
Is there anyway to configure a Cron job?

Whilst I am running a RAID 5 set up, that then backs up to a RAID1 Volume (5 disks in total), I then want to back up to a NAS outside of the building.
Rsync is available, but Cron does not seen to be.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi,
May I ask why you want to use Cron jobs? Rsync can already implement scheduled backups.
I am not sure if my answer is what you want.
You can put the backup task script into a certain directory, log in the TNAS with SSH, and then use the command "crontab -e" to add tasks, but once you restart the device, this scheduled task will be invalid.

I thought the TNAS Rsync is only good for backing up to an Rsync server.
The external NAS I will, back up to is very basic, there is nothing configurable, so I can not use the TNAS Rsync app.

I have just tested, and crontab does get re-written on a power-cycle.

So, whilst Cron is available, it is pretty useless if all the jobs are just going to be lost on a reboot.

Cron is available here as 3rd party modulel. Jobs are persistent after reboot and jobs can be added via module webui
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=1821

Thank you.
Will check it out.