There are these 5 folders below /etc/periodic/ 15min, daily, hourly, monthly, weekly. Sorry, but I can’t find any documentation about these and I’d like to know how to use them for my Bash scripts and when exactly my scripts will be executed.
Is this Home Assistant related?
Yes, it definitely is.
They are probably part of cron, so look into that command.
It is not as such a part of home Assistant, but cron is a part of most Linux distritions.
Bash scripts are not really home Assistant related either.
Sorry, but I thought, because Home Assistant OS has these folders included there is a documentation how they are configured. Of course I know that I can use the Crontab command with Linux. Just had the idea it’s a bit more comfortable here.
Anyway, thank you!
# crontab -l
# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
# min hour day month weekday command
*/15 * * * * run-parts /etc/periodic/15min
0 * * * * run-parts /etc/periodic/hourly
0 2 * * * run-parts /etc/periodic/daily
0 3 * * 6 run-parts /etc/periodic/weekly
0 5 1 * * run-parts /etc/periodic/monthly
HA OS is an appliance with no user serviceable parts inside.
But I can run Bash scripts e.g. for backups etc. I haven’t yet found out how to trigger them automatically, but I sure will.
There is a command line integration in HA, but it does not make sense to add stuff to cron when you have HA that is meant to do the same be more.
I know, but I don’t want to discuss about the sense or nonsense what I want to do. I have tried some different backup addons, but until now I found none that fits my needs. If you know a way how to run my Bash script daily and how to trigger this from within HA I’d be glad to read about this.
Thank you, I’ll have a look at this.