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