Re: delay shutdown while backup (rsnapshot) is running

* Fabian Kürten (2010-07-01): [...] > Now my question: How can I prevent/delay the shutdown while rsnapshot is > running. For your information, I am using gnome, so a solution working > only for shutdowns via gnome system menu would be sufficient. How does that system work? You could run a shell

delay shutdown while backup (rsnapshot) is running

Hi, I am using rsnapshot, together with run-rsnapshot and cron on my laptop. This works perfectly fine as long as I don't decide to shutdown during a backup. Unfortunately, on shutdown, rsnapshot gets terminated/killed, which leaves the backup in an inconsistent state. For example this might look