Change OMV cron jobs via a script

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    Hi all,


    From time to time I need to execute long jobs and I need need to disable the shutdown tasks that I configured in OMV via Power Management > Scheduled Tasks.

    Currently this step is manual and I want to automate it.


    I want to know if there's a proper way to interact with the OMV configuration.

    My goal is to know how to properly disable (and later enable) the jobs, save the configuration, all with shell commands.


    I've found the command to apply the changes herebut I don't know how to correctly make them.

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    applying changes is writing database values to the files. So, you would need to change the value in the database xml. each time you do that, run the omv-salt command to write out the files.

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    So I can literally alter the XML and then execute omv-salt stage prepare and omv-salt stage deploy?

    I'll test it in a VM before breaking my prod system, thank you :)

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    Quote from auanasgheps

    and then execute omv-salt stage prepare and omv-salt stage deploy?

    No need for those. That will take a long time. If you make an schedule jobs change in the database, you would just need omv-salt deploy run cron

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