Run a script (for health check ping) after a cloud sync task completes

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi,

I am migrating a custom rolled rclone backup solution with the now-built-in FreeNAS "cloud sync" task (which uses rclone under the hood), to push backups to Backblaze B2.

I'd like to ping a healthchecks.io URL when the backup completes to get alerts in case there is a problem with FreeNAS itself or my network or Backblaze. That was easily done with curl in an old cron job, but I can't find an easy way to do it using FreeNAS. Is there any ability to trigger a script or command when the cloud sync is done?

I can see that when the task is running, it generates an rclone config in /tmp and runs rclone by itself. What actually manages the cloud sync tasks?

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a solution for this?

 

[Martin Aspeli]

No, but from looking through source code and tickets I think possibly 11.3 will have a feature for this.