Schedule Commands

resticprofile accepts these internal commands:

  • schedule
  • unschedule
  • status

These resticprofile commands either operate on the profile selected by --name, on the profiles selected by a group (before v0.29.0), or on all profiles when the flag --all is passed on the command line.

Warning

Before version 0.29.0, the --name flag on a group was used to select all profiles in the group for scheduling them. It was similar to run the schedule commands on each profile individually.

Version 0.29.0 introduced group scheduling: The group schedule works at the group level (and will run all profiles one by one when the group schedule is triggered).

Examples:

resticprofile --name profile schedule 
resticprofile --name group schedule 
resticprofile schedule --all

Please note, schedules are always independent of each other no matter whether they have been created with --all, by group or from a single profile.

schedule command

Install all the schedules defined on the selected profile or profiles.

Please note on systemd, we need to start the timer once to enable it. Otherwise it will only be enabled on the next reboot. If you dont’ want to start (and enable) it now, pass the --no-start flag to the command line.

Also if you use the --all flag to schedule all your profiles at once, make sure you use only the user mode or system mode. A combination of both would not schedule the tasks properly:

  • if the user is not privileged, only the user tasks will be scheduled
  • if the user is privileged, all schedule will end-up as a system schedule
    Tip

    resticprofile does not keep a state of the schedule and unschedule commands. If you need to do many changes in your profiles (like moving, renaming, deleting etc.) it’s recommended to unschedule everything using the --all flag before changing your profiles.

unschedule command

Remove all the schedules defined on the selected profile or profiles.

Please note using the --all flag won’t remove schedules on deleted (or renamed) profiles. resticprofile does not keep a state of the schedules.

status command

Print the status on all the installed schedules of the selected profile or profiles.

The display of the status command will be OS dependant. Please refer to the examples on which output you can expect from it.

run-schedule command

This is the command that is used internally by the scheduler to tell resticprofile to execute in the context of a schedule. It means it will set the proper log output (schedule-log) and all other flags specific to the schedule.

If you’re scheduling resticprofile manually you can use this command. It will execute the profile using all the schedule-* parameters defined in the profile.

This command is only taking one argument: name of the command to execute, followed by the profile name, both separated by a @ sign.

resticprofile run-schedule backup@profile
Info

You cannot specify the profile name using the --name flag.