On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 07:35:05PM +0000, Barry Scott wrote: > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:08:33 GMT Colin Guthrie wrote: > > Barry Scott wrote on 31/12/17 17:41: > > > I think that for my backups to run for a user I will need to stop their > > > systemd user services. > > Out of curiosity, why do you think that the process needs to be stopped > > for the backups to run? > > The process of concern are running fetchmail that is calling into dovecot. > > If I do not stop dovecot the Mail dir will not be consistent. > If I do not stop the fetchmail process then dovecot will be called > and the backup can see an inconsistent state.
In such cases you should use "fsreeze" around backups. -- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl "God is more forgiving." _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel