Automate with schedules

A schedule runs a list of tasks at set times, such as a nightly restart or a backup. Open your server, then Manage, then Schedules.

Create a schedule

1. Click New schedule.
2. Give it a Schedule name, such as “Nightly restart”.
3. Set when it runs with the Minute, Hour, Day of month, Month and Day of week fields. Click Show cheatsheet for examples.
4. Leave Only when the server is online on to skip runs while the server is stopped.
5. Click Create schedule.

Times are in UTC. Use a time zone converter to find the UTC time for your own clock.

The fields use cron format. Some examples:

Minute	Hour	Day of month	Month	Day of week	Runs
0	4	*	*	*	Every day at 04:00 UTC
*/30	*	*	*	*	Every 30 minutes
0	*/6	*	*	*	Every 6 hours
0	12	*	*	0	Every Sunday at 12:00 UTC

Add tasks

Open the schedule and click New task. Pick an Action:

• Send a command runs a console command, without the slash.
• Power action starts, restarts, stops or terminates the server.
• Create a backup makes a backup. When both backup slots are full, it replaces the oldest unlocked backup.

Tasks run from top to bottom. Wait before running sets how many seconds a task waits after the one before, up to 900. Turn on Continue on failure to run the next tasks even if this one fails.

A restart with a warning first looks like this:

1. Send a command: say Restarting in 5 minutes
2. Send a command, wait 240 seconds: say Restarting in 1 minute
3. Power action, wait 60 seconds: Restart the server

Test, pause or delete

• Run now runs the schedule’s tasks straight away.
• Turn off Schedule enabled to pause it without deleting it.
• Delete schedule removes it and its tasks.

Note

A schedule doesn’t keep a free server awake. With Only when the server is online on, runs are skipped while it sleeps. See sleep, hibernation and deletion.