Proxmox Backup time offset.

[rwithd]

So I'm sure this question has been answered but I must be using the wrong words in my search.
simply put. I need to add an offset to my schedule. I would like to Perform a Backup every half hour plus 10 min. so *:10 and *:40 what would be the best way to express this in a single argument? Or better yet where in the documentation can I find this specific case?

 

[dcsapak]

there is no 'offset' in the calendar events, but you can put it in manually e.g.

*:10,40

triggers every hour at the 10 and 40 minute mark

EDIT: see also the documentation of the calendar events: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/calendarevents.html

 

[rwithd]

That makes sense, I think I was just thinking about how to accomplish the task from the wrong direction. I think this would work too. which is closer to how I was imagining the problem. *:10/30. based on this in the provided documentation.

fri 12..13:5/20

fri 12,13:5/20

Friday at 12:05, 12:25, 12:45, 13:05, 13:25 and 13:45

How would I express running a task every 40 min for example execution times would be. 00:40, 01:20, 02:00, 03:40 ... would I just need to explictly express those times?

 

[dcsapak]

would I just need to explictly express those times?

yes, since the intervals only count for the specific group (e.g. hours or minutes) not on the time as a whole
also you cannot define such timestamps in a single calendar event, you have to use multiple since the groups bind tighter than the separating ':'

imho in that case i'd do something like:

job1: 0/2:00,40 should trigger at 0:00, 0:40, 2:00, 2:40, 4:00, 4:40 and so on
job2: 1/2:20 should trigger at 1:20, 3:20, 5:20 and so on

 

[rwithd]

Thanks Dominik, very helpful as always.

I'll stick to 30 min intervals