Creating a schedule

New schedules are made in the New schedule wizard. It has five steps: Start, Tasks, When, Options and Review. Use Next and Back to move between them. Next checks the current step and highlights anything that needs fixing before it moves on.

Open the wizard

1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server.
2. On the Overview tab, in the Schedules card, select New schedule.

You can also select New schedule at the top of the full list (Schedules card → View all).

Step 1: Start

Choose a template or start from scratch, and give the schedule a name.

Start from a template offers four ready-made schedules. Picking one fills in the name, tasks and timing, then takes you to the Tasks step. You can change anything afterwards.

Template	Tasks	When it runs
Nightly restart	Power → Restart	Every day at 04:00
Daily backup	Backup	Every day at 03:30
Broadcast message	Command, which you fill in with your game's message command	Every 2 hours, from the next full hour
Clean old logs	Clean up: *.log.gz files older than 14 days	Every week, on Sunday at 05:00

Times are in your browser's time zone. On Farming Simulator servers, Broadcast message uses a Message task (an in-game chat message) instead of a command.

Name is required, up to 191 characters.

If you don't pick a template, the schedule starts with one empty Command task and runs every day from the next 04:00.

Step 2: Tasks

Each task is a numbered card. Pick the task type at the top of the card, then fill in its fields:

• Command: a console command.
• Message: an in-game chat message (Farming Simulator only).
• Power: Start, Restart, Stop or Kill.
• Backup: makes a backup.
• Clean up: deletes old files that match a pattern.
• Workshop: installs Workshop mod updates (only on servers with Workshop mods).

Every task also has a Wait … seconds after the previous task field and a Continue if this task fails checkbox.

Select Add task to add another card. The counter next to it shows how many you have, for example "2/10 tasks". Remove a task with the × on its card.

Tasks run from top to bottom and can't be moved, so add them in the order you want them to run.

For every task type and option in detail, see Schedule tasks.

Step 3: When

Set the first run and how often the schedule repeats.

• Schedule date and Schedule time: when the schedule runs first. The time label shows your browser's time zone, for example Schedule time (Europe/London).
• Repeat this schedule: turn this off to run the schedule once, at the date and time above.
• Repeat every: a whole number from 1 to 1,000 and a unit: Minutes, Hours, Days or Weeks. The shortest repeat is 5 minutes.

A line below the fields confirms your choice, for example "Runs every day at 04:00."

Some common timings:

You want	Schedule date and time	Repeat every
Every 15 minutes	Any time soon	15 Minutes
Every 6 hours, at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00	The next day, 00:00	6 Hours
Every day at 04:00	Any day, 04:00	1 Days
Every Monday at 18:00	A Monday, 18:00	1 Weeks
Once only	The date and time you want	Repeat this schedule off

A weekly schedule runs on the weekday of its start date. To run on several weekdays, for example Monday, Wednesday and Friday, make one weekly schedule for each day.

Step 4: Options

• Enabled: on by default. Paused schedules keep their settings but don't run automatically. You can still run them with Run now.
• Only run while the server is online: skips runs while the server is stopped. Don't turn this on for a schedule with a Power → Start task, because that task would never run.

On some servers you'll also see:

• Only if no players are online: skips the run when anyone is connected. If the player count can't be read, the run is skipped too.
• Email me when a run fails: sends an email to your account email address when a run fails. This is on by default for new schedules.
• Post failures to Discord: posts a message to a Discord channel when a run fails. Paste the channel's webhook URL (it starts with https://discord.com/api/webhooks/) into the field that appears. In Discord, you can create one under the channel's Edit Channel → Integrations → Webhooks.

After you've saved a webhook, the option shows Connected, or "Not working — replace the webhook" if Discord stops accepting it. Use Replace to paste a new URL or Remove to stop posting.

Step 5: Review

Check the summary of the name, tasks, timing and options. For repeating schedules it also shows the date and time of the first run, with your time zone.

Select Create to save the schedule. It appears in the schedules list with its next run.

Examples

Nightly restart with a warning

This warns players in the chat, waits 5 minutes, then restarts the server at 04:00.

1. Select New schedule, then the Nightly restart template.
2. In the Tasks step, change task 1 from Power to Command and enter your game's message command, for example say Server restarts in 5 minutes.
3. Select Add task. On task 2, choose Power, then Restart.
4. On task 2, set Wait to 300 seconds after the previous task.
5. Select Next. In the When step, set Schedule time to 03:55, so the restart happens at 04:00. Leave Repeat every at 1 Days.
6. Select Next. In Options, turn on Only run while the server is online if you don't want the schedule to start a stopped server.
7. Select Next, check the summary and select Create.

tip

The command syntax depends on your game. say works on many games, including Minecraft and Rust. On Farming Simulator, use a Message task instead of a command. The first task's command can't contain ;, &, |, `, $, backslashes or brackets.

Daily backup

1. Select New schedule, then the Daily backup template. It has one Backup task.
2. Select Next. In the When step, change Schedule time if 03:30 doesn't suit you.
3. Select Next twice, check the summary and select Create.

Each backup counts toward your plan's backup limit. When you're at the limit, a scheduled backup replaces the oldest backup that isn't protected. To keep a backup for good, protect it.

tip

The Scheduled backups switch on the Backups tab sets up the same kind of schedule in one click. See Scheduled backups.

Weekly log cleanup

1. Select New schedule, then the Clean old logs template. It deletes *.log.gz files older than 14 days, every Sunday at 05:00.
2. To clean other files too, add patterns to File patterns, separated by commas, for example *.log.gz, *.tmp.
3. Select Next through the remaining steps and select Create.