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How to Create Your FiveM Server Schedules Guide

In this article, you'll learn how to create automatic schedules based on your preferences.

Schedules

You can allow your server to automatically schedule tasks, such as restarting your FiveM server, creating backups, and sending console commands. Creating a schedule is fairly simple. This is a how to create your FiveM server schedules guide. Please follow these few steps.

  1. Access your RocketNode Panel.

  2. Navigate to the Schedules tab.

  3. Press the Create New Schedule button.

  4. Choose a name and select the times you would like the tasks to run. The system uses the cronjob syntax.

  5. Once you create the schedule, you need to add some tasks to it. Press the New Task button to add tasks to run on the schedule.

  6. In the action dropdown box, you can set it to run commands, send a power action, create a backup, and more.

On a FiveM server, the only two recommended schedules are backups and restarts.

Create a Backup Task

1. Press the New Task button.

2. Select Create Backup in the action dropdown and press Create Task.

Create an Automatic Restart Task

1. Press the New Task button.

2. Select Send power action in the action dropdown.

3. In the payload, select Restart the server.

4. Press the Create Task button.

Find out more about FiveM server hosting with the help of our Knowledgebase articles that can be found here. For any questions please contact the support team via Discord or on-site Tickets.


Updated February 20, 2026      
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