On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 06:59:38AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > It would be great to include a way to disable the computer going to sleep / > suspend while a backup is in process. > > If backupninja is run on a laptop like machine (or desktop at a nature > friendly user), it is likely to start at times when the computer would become > unused, and when it will end up soon in suspend mode. Backupninja won't then > be able to run very well if backups are to be sent to a remote server. >
Responding to myself. I doubt there's a universal way to prevent going to suspend on Debian in Jessie. At least, with Gnome 3 / gnome shell and systemd, it seems an option is to use systemd-inhibit --what=sleep backupninja to start it. Hope this helps. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
