Re: rdiff-backup and computer suspend

2023-04-20 Thread David Precious
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:37:45 -0400 Eric Beversluis wrote: > When I get up in the morning my rdiff-backup process hasn't finished. > I can't figure out if it's taking all night (it's a pretty big > backup, since it includes the Windows VM) or if, for some reason, > it's hanging up during the

Re: rdiff-backup and computer suspend

2023-04-20 Thread Patrik Dufresne
In Minarca, which uses rdiff-backup under the hood, I'm using wakepy ( https://pypi.org/project/wakepy/) to keep the computer awake during the execution of the backup. I see it has a command line interface. So it might be possible to use it in a bash script. I think Wakepy is calling a systemd

Re: rdiff-backup and computer suspend

2023-04-20 Thread Greg Troxel
Eric Beversluis writes: > So my question concerns how suspend work on Ubuntu. I assume that the > computer doesn't suspend if a process like rdiff-backup is > running. Maybe that's wrong. But I've always thought the computer > wouldn't suspend as long as there was activity. And if the computer >

rdiff-backup and computer suspend

2023-04-20 Thread Eric Beversluis
When I get up in the morning my rdiff-backup process hasn't finished. I can't figure out if it's taking all night (it's a pretty big backup, since it includes the Windows VM) or if, for some reason, it's hanging up during the night. So my question concerns how suspend work on Ubuntu. I assume