camldr69

Thank you so much, I have this running now. I have added to the above details to do what I am aiming at. below is what I have now got setup 00 8 1-7,15-21,29-31 * * [ "$(date +\%u)" -eq 6 ] && this runs at 8:00am ONLY on 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturday of the month 00 8 8-14,22-28 * * [ "$(date +\%u)" -eq 6 ] && this runs at 8:00am ONLY on 2nd, 4th Saturday of the month

Thank you for the response, I will try this later today. The reason it seems so complicated, is I have rotating backups. I have a backup to a HDD on the 1st, 3rd and 5th saturday of the month and to a different HDD on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. so I wouild have a 2 week window to recover a file if needed. Doing it this way should allow me to only need 2 scheduled backup jobs.

I have been using unraid for 5+ years. I am just getting in to CRON scheduling now. I am trying to set the schedule for an rsync job to run on the 1st-7th of the month ONLY if it is Saturday (so only the first Saturday of the month). I have set the following which I checked "crontab guru". It resolves to what I want there, but does not even execute in unraid. 25 12 */100,1-7 * SAT So it "should run at 12:25pm only on the 1st thru 7th of the month IF it is a Saturday Is there anyone that can help me out?