Overall task: Trying to merge information from one repository into another, then periodically backup the latest combined information to another repository. This running on Plesk Obsidian with Windows server.

Problem: The script works great when run from a Remote Desktop login as administrator. But the script hangs when run from a Plesk scheduled task, it hangs at the first GIT pull statement. It then hangs at some other points to.

First problem: The batch file didnt run at all as a scheduled task. Putting the batch in Administrator/Documents seemed to solve this issue

• Is it the chroot issue mentioned here? https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/website-management/scheduling-tasks.65207/
• Or maybe this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41030190/command-to-run-a-bat-file
• Some progress creating c:\users\administrators\documents\dailyrun.bat - plesk can execute this

rem This will work from a plesk fired batchfile. But it requires a dummy repo to be created, and the clone command to run from there
git init
git config --global core.sshCommand "ssh -i c:\\users\\administrator\\.ssh\\id_rsa -F /dev/null"

git clone https://github.com/garnetr/thegarnetnet 

• SSH Fails from crontab but succeeds when executed from a command line - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869589/why-ssh-fails-from-crontab-but-succedes-when-executed-from-a-command-line
• SSH agent and Crontab, how to get them to work together https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2205282/ssh-agent-and-crontab-is-there-a-good-way-to-get-these-to-meet

• Queries
  • running git from background doesnt work
• Articles about GIT specifically
  • Adding remotes to GIT - https://git-scm.com/book/it/v2/Git-Basics-Working-with-Remotes
  • How to tell GIT which private key to use - link
    • ~/.ssh/config can list hosts and which identify file and users to use - example GITHUB