call rsync script from GUI via CLI?

[Revolution]

Hello everyone,

I want to add a Cron job that compresses a folder of a PC-Backup at the highest compression level (tar cvf - /mnt/Volume/Backups/PC | gzip -9 - > PC.tar.gz) and then rsync it over to my offsite backup. Since my offsite backup is a raid 1 of 2x 3TB drives I don't have enough space to do it without.
Can I make a rsync task in the GUI and call it via cron after the compression, or do I have to do a full cron script for this kind of setup?

Greetings

 

[dlavigne]

Which solution did you end up with?

 

[m0nkey_]

FreeNAS supports Rsync tasks. Details on how to configure it can be found in the documentation at http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_tasks.html#rsync-tasks.

You may also write a script and schedule it as a task too, again this can be found in the doc: http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_tasks.html#cron-jobs

 

[Revolution]

I ended up with a full cron script for the task. Just wanted to know if there is a easy way to modify the rsync task without editing the whole script.