On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:37:45 -0400 Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> 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 night. Do you redirect rdiff-backup's ouput to a log file? Maybe you'd find some hints there? > 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 does > suspend, does that mean that the rdiff-backup process also suspends? > > Is there a way to have the computer only suspend once the backup > process completes? If you're on Ubuntu you presumably have systemd in use, so running rdiff-backup via systemd-inhibit would probably do the trick: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/systemd-inhibit.1.html
