How to schedule automatic restarts and backups

The Schedules tab runs tasks for you at set times: restart the server, make a backup, send a console command, post to Discord or delete files. You create a schedule (the time) and then add one or more tasks (what to do).

Auto restart every day

1. Open your server at panel.endercloud.in, go to the Schedules tab and click Create schedule.

2. Schedule name: Auto Restart.

3. Set the time. In Easy mode pick from the dropdowns, for example Minute = Once, Hour = Every Day at Midnight, and check the Preview line ("At 12:00 AM"). Or switch to Advanced, turn on Show Cheatsheet, and type the cron values: daily at midnight = 0 0 * * *.

4. Leave Only When Server Is Online and Schedule Enabled on, and click Create schedule.

5. Click Manage schedule next to it, then New Task.

6. Action = Send power action, Time offset = 0, Payload = Restart the server. Click Create Task.

Done. The server now restarts automatically at that time. The schedule page shows Next run at so you can check it.

Add warning messages before the restart

Players like a warning. Add tasks in this order on the same schedule (New Task each time). The Time offset is how many seconds to wait after the previous task.

The restart happens about five minutes after the first message. Set the schedule time five minutes earlier (for example 55 23 * * *) if the restart itself should be at midnight. Don't type a / before commands. The time offset of the first task is ignored.

Auto backup every day

1. Go to Schedules → Create schedule. Name it Daily Backup.

2. Pick a quiet time, for example Advanced → 0 4 * * * (04:00 every day). Click Create schedule.

3. Click Manage schedule → New Task.

4. Action = Create backup, Time offset = 0. Ignored Files is optional (leave it empty to use the server's .pteroignore, or list big folders to skip). Click Create Task.

When you have reached your backup limit, the oldest backup is rotated (deleted) to make room for the new one. Lock a backup in the Backups tab to keep it safe from this. On plans with one backup slot, each scheduled backup replaces the last one, so download important copies yourself. Slots per plan: How to create and restore backups.

Other task actions

• Discord webhook: posts a message to a Discord channel. Enter the Webhook URL (Discord: channel settings → Integrations → Webhooks) and the Message, for example "Server restarting now". Add it as the first task of your restart schedule to tell your community.

• Delete files: deletes files or folders on a timer. Enter one path per line, relative to the server's main folder, for example logs. Double-check the paths: deleted files can't be recovered.

• Send power action payloads: Start the server, Restart the server, Stop the server or Terminate the server (force stop, no saving; avoid it).

• Continue on Failure: turn it on if later tasks should still run when this one fails.

Edit, test or delete a schedule

On the schedule's page, Edit changes the name, time and switches, New Task adds tasks, and the red trash button deletes the schedule with all its tasks. The Schedules list shows Name, Last run at and Status (Active or Inactive).

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