Scheduled Tasks¶
Rockstor has the ability to set up scheduled tasks that are run at a specified frequency eg: every minute / 30 minutes, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly; and at a specified time in the case of lower frequencies.
The types of tasks currently supported are:
Pool scrub
Share Snapshot
Creating a New Task¶
To create a new task click the Add Scheduled Task button in the Scheduled Tasks section of the System page; see the following sections Create a Scrub Task and Create a Snapshot Task for examples of creating tasks.
Create a Scrub Task¶
To create a scrub task enter the following:
Task name and Task type ie scrub
Pool to scrub from the drop down
Frequency of task ie how often and when
![../../_images/scrub_task.png](../../_images/scrub_task.png)
Then the Submit button.
Create a Snapshot Task¶
To create a snapshot task enter the following:
Task name and Task type ie snapshot
Share to snapshot
Snapshot prefix the name of a snapshot taken at timestamp YYYY/MM/DD/HH/MM will be prefix_YYYYMMDDHHMM
Maximum count keep only this number of the most recent snapshots
Frequency of tasks ie how often and when
![../../_images/mpsnapshot_daily.png](../../_images/mpsnapshot_daily.png)
Then the Submit button.
Edit an Existing Task¶
If you wish to Enable / Disable / Edit an Existing task use that task’s respective pen icon in the Actions column on the System page Scheduled Tasks section.
![../../_images/tasks_list.png](../../_images/tasks_list.png)
And clicking on the pen of an existing task results in:
![../../_images/task_edit.png](../../_images/task_edit.png)
Note the Enable task? tick box within this edit page.
Delete a Task¶
To delete a task, click the Delete / bin icon in that tasks Actions column in the list of tasks available on the System page Scheduled Tasks section.