[SOLVED] Issue Scheduling FreeFileSync Using Cron/Zeit

[parkernathan]

I'm trying to schedule FreeFileSync to run at 6PM each night using Cron, using Zeit as the frontend. I've setup my cron job as follows (see attached image). However, the task is not running at 6PM.

I'm on Linux Mint Uma Cinnamon.

Do I need to edit my Cron script to successfully run the task?

Thanks!

[mikeflan]

Hi. We can't see all of your first command.
Your 2nd command should probably look like this:

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/opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/parkernathan/FreeFileSync/WebMate.ffs_batch

Try that in your terminal first.

[RIH]

mikeflan is correct with the format of the task. However, for it to work as a timed cron job you need to precede that format with

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env DISPLAY=:0.0 

The format as shown by mikeflan will work fine in a Terminal though..

[parkernathan]

Thanks! Giving these a try and will report back how it goes.

[parkernathan]

Got it going. This command worked:

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DISPLAY=:0 /opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/parkernathan/FreeFileSync/WebMate.ffs_batch 1>/dev/null 2>&1

Then I just set the schedule for 6PM local time.