On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:16:38PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I want to terminate the backup from the command line, but I have no > idea what command to use. Quit? Exit? Stop? Halt? Stop-already? I could > just eject the destination media, but I'd rather stop the backup as > gracefully as possible.
Unless it's running in the background, you should be able to use Control-C. If that doesn't work, I use Control-Z (puts it in the background and gives you a shell) and then type "kill %1". After that, I can type "fg" (bring the background task back to foreground) and it will usually stop. Alternately, you can open another terminal, then type "ps ax | grep rdiff-backup" - this will usually show process information about 2 things - your rdiff-backup process, and the grep process you just started. The first number is the process's ID number, or PID. You can then tell the process to stop by using "kill [PID]". If you want to be more forceful about it, you can use "kill -9 [PID]", or if the pricess is running as root, "sudo kill [-9] [PID]" Have fun, Aaron _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
