Scheduled Reboots

[CameronMG]

Hi Everyone,

So I've been using Proxmox VE for a good few months now since transitioning from an ESXi environment. I have two nodes, one which predominantly handles Windows VMs and one that handles Linux VMs and containers.

I've currently got a task setup on all of the Windows VMs which are set to reboot every Sunday morning, however I'd like to reboot the node which has the windows VMs on it as well. I know this is not necessary, however this is something that I'd like to do as I check for updates weekly on the hosts.

At this stage, i'm not sure about how would be the best way about going about this. Would a cron job be suitable or is this something that I'm going to have to do manually (which I could be doing without). Effectively, I'd like to have the VMs shut down, the host to restart and then I'd just set the VMs to start "On start" etc.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[_gabriel]

reboot host will reboot guests.
as Dunuin said.

 

[CameronMG]

reboot host will reboot guests.
as Dunuin said.

Id like to automate this if possible, hence the post.

 

[Dunuin]

Then write a line to /etc/crontab that tells the server to reboot. Something like 0 4 * * * root /usr/sbin/reboot to reboot the server each day at 04:00. Thats how it's done for nearly 50 years.

 

[CameronMG]

Then write a line to /etc/crontab that tells the server to reboot. Something like 0 4 * * * root /usr/sbin/reboot to reboot the server each day at 04:00. Thats how it's done for nearly 50 years.

Many thanks for the heads up on this. Tested it earlier on with my test box and worked perfectly!

 

[ThaNerd]

What about once a month?

would it be:

*-*-01 0 4 * * * root /usr/sbin/reboot

 

[_gabriel]

please Google is your friend
https://crontab.guru/#0_4_1_*_*