Configure the Plakar Scheduler for Daily Backups

Last reviewed: 2025-12-08 / Plakar v1.0.6

Plakar includes a scheduler that can run backups as well as tasks like restoring files, synchronizing Kloset stores, and verifying backup integrity.

In this tutorial, we will show how to set up the scheduler to run backups every day.

Requirements

Create a configuration for your Kloset store. This ensures the scheduler can later retrieve the store passphrase:

1plakar store add mybackups /var/backups passphrase=mysuperpassphrase

Then, create the store referencing the configuration:

1plakar at @mybackups create

Configuration

Create the configuration file scheduler.yaml for the scheduler in your current directory with the following content:

1agent:
2  tasks:
3    - name: backup Plakar source code
4      repository: "@mybackups"
5
6      backup:
7        path: /Users/niluje/dev/plakar/plakar
8        interval: 24h
9        check: true

This configuration file defines a task for the Plakar scheduler, where:

• name is the task label, displayed in the UI.
• repository refers to the Kloset store. The syntax @mystore corresponds to the store previously configured with plakar store add mystore.
• backup is the task type. In this case, we back up the Plakar source code at the given path every 24 hours.
• check runs a verification after the backup is created.

Running the scheduler

Start the scheduler

1plakar scheduler start -tasks ./scheduler.yaml

The scheduler runs in the background. To stop it, run:

1plakar scheduler stop