Backup doesn't seem to be running at 1am when the task is set to "always"

[kmleong]

Hi Community,

I’ve running ZimaOS 1.5.3 on a BeeLink Me Mini NAS.

I’ve setup a bunch of backup tasks to copy files over from my primary NAS (via SMB) onto the RAID 5 on ZimaOS. At the same time, the backup will also make a secondary copy to a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) device that is connected to the BeeLink Me Mini via USB.

Based on the description of the “always” setting of the backup schedule, the tasks is supposed to run daily at 0100 AM. I’ve left the backup tasks for a few days and it never seems to run automatically as advertised. Only when I manually start the task does the label of the latest update get updated.

I’ve also gone in the ZimaOS shell and looked in ZimaOS-HD/.log/casaos/ directory and couldn’t find any logs specific to backups.

Has anybody managed to get the backups to run automatically at 1am? Or have I done something wrong/stupid with my setup.

Would appreciate any advice or guidance from the Community. Thanks in advance.

[matt666]

Hello, i am new here in this community.
I got more or less the same problem. Since 12 Days i am working on a thin client with zimaOS.
The scedule backup is not running. In my network, i got an older Synology and i would like to make the backup daily in this nas system.

When i start eh backup manuell, everything is running well, but a scedule is not starting.

Any idea, why this is not working?

[kmleong]

Hi @matt666 ,

I discovered that the scheduler in the backup function only works if the other NAS is also based on ZimaOS.

The only way that I could get the backup to trigger on a scheduled basis was to SSH into ZimaOS and create a cron job to restart the backup server. This will force the backup jobs to run at least once when the backup server starts up.

0 1 * * * systemctl restart icewhale-files-backup.service

The other downside I noticed was that this cron job I defined gets erased whenever a new version of ZimaOS is applied.

My existing setup is not ideal. Will have to spend some time to find a more reliable and robust solution for scheduled backups.

[matt666]

Hey, this was a good idea.
I use the Zima Cron to run this everynight at 1am to start the backup.
At 2am, my Synology make a crypt backup into a cloud space.

How to Run Scheduled Tasks on ZimaOS (Zima Cron Tutorial)

Zima Cron is a scheduling tool designed specifically for ZimaOS. It allows you to automate tasks such as script execution and data backups without installing extra dependencies. You can install it directly using the built-in package manager. 1. Install Zima Cron ZimaOS includes the official package manager zpkg, so no additional configuration is required. Open the ZimaOS terminal (via the Web management interface or by logging into the device directly). Run the following command: zpkg…

Thanks for this good idea with the cron job!