I am looking to backup some shares from my server to a usb drive which I will connect as an unassigned drive to the array. How can I cron a script to run automatically and copy the data from the array to the drive? 

 

I have a script ready but I am just not share where to copy it for unraid to execute it and how to cron it like I normally would on a linux machine. 

 

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 

Unassigned Devices can run a script whenever you plug in the drive

 

For scheduling, use the user scripts plugin

Oh awesome! thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for. I have run into just one hitch though. 

 

I want one line of the script to complete first before it moves to the next. For instance I want share A and B to sync using rsync before I empty Share A to the usb backup. 

 

In ubuntu, I use "wait %%" between rsync jobs to achieve that but that command is somehow messing up unraid and its not running the script.

Any suggestions?

 

If you're not running rsync as a daemon then it should finish the job before carrying on to the next line in the script