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Backup the Synology Task Scheduler

If you are like me and enjoy poking around under the hood of your Synology, you are probably using the DSM Task Scheduler to accomplish many recurring tasks. One concern I had recently is how to backup the configuration of the Task Scheduler. Unliking piping crontab -l to a file, Synology does not appear to provide any documentation on command line operations against the DSM Task Scheduler. I knew there were various syno* commands available, but was not sure if any existed for the Task Scheduler. I am going to deviate from the topic of this post momentarily, but for what I feel is a good reason. I enjoy exploring what I can do via SSH/CLI (and therefore scripting), so locating the available commands is just the first step. My Synology has a rather large data set and using the find command can become problematic. I decided to do some searching on how to exclude directories like (/volume1) from find's search process. First, I came across answers that simply excluded the result
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Palo Alto Breaks FQDN NAT's with PAN-OS 9.x

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First, I want to say that I love my Palo Alto firewall, a PA-220.  It is a tiny box with a ton of features and owning a "lab" unit is perfect for being on a budget.  It is a very inexpensive annual subscription and gives me the ability to play with all those cool new features I should not try on the company firewall at work in production.  Now to the meat...
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Welcome to the Matrix

I've been thinking of starting a virtualization-focused (mostly VMware) blog for some time in order to share my experiences and lessons learned, so what better time than the present.  Today, I recertified myself as a VCP6.5-DCV  certification holder (unofficially, of course, until VMware reviews my exam).  Word to the wise, don't let your VMware certification expire or you'll need to take another course to get another certification.  Only active certification holders can change a course requirement into a course recommendation.  My VCP6-DCV  certification expires next week, so time was of the essence -- lesson learned. I guess I should start with some sort of introduction about myself and why you would care to spend time reading what I write.  If not, at least I'll have a place I can reference to remember what I did to fix that one thing a couple years ago.  So, I'll start there... Hi, my name is John.  My experience with VMware started back in my military days in
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