On my backup server I use rdiff-backup to remotely backup several rather
large postgres database installations (using the postgres hot-backup
capability). Under certain circumstances, these backups can take a very
long time to complete.
The execution of these backups is scheduled via cron.
An
Jason
We use a check in the bash script that runs rdiffbackup. This puts a pid
file into the var run directory and causes the script to block if the
script has not cleared it at the end.
if test -e /var/run/remotebackup.pid; then
echo "Backup is already running!"
echo "If it isn't, remove /
Jason L. Buberel wrote:
What is the most reliable method to determine if rdiff-backup is already
running on the destination directory?
If there are two current mirror markers in the rdiff-backup-data
directory, and the latest one is in memory then its still running.
You can get the pid of the
