Back In Time

Stop Backup in Progress?

Asked by Garibaldi

Thank you for this fantastic backup solution for Linux! I was looking for something along the lines of Time Machine or a good rsync GUI and this fits the bill exactly! The only issue I've run into is that if a backup starts, how can I stop it midway through? Sometimes what happens is back starts and then a few minutes later I realize I want to suspend my laptop and move it somewher else. If a backup is running, I cannot do this because I cannot unmount my external (backup) hard drive. How can I tell Back in Time to pause or stop when I want it to?

Thanks!

Andrew

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

You can't and there is no easy way to do it. Once I start rsync I don't want to kill it.

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Garibaldi (garibaldi) said : 		#2

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the response. I guess I'll just shut down if I need to disconnect during a sync.

Andrew

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Arek Olek (arekolek) said : 		#3

I'm not sure about "easy" but there is some way, cause Grsync has it and it uses rsync as BiT does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsync

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Florian Schröck (mael-reverted) said : 		#4

i would like such an option, too.
a pause function would also be great :)

workaround - kill all back in time processes - the backup will be incomplete of course:

ps auxfww|grep backintime|awk '{print $2}'|xargs sudo kill -9

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Marja Erwin (marja-e) said : 		#5

This is a major problem because I can't run my laptop much more than 12 to 15 hours at a time. And Back in Time takes longer than that trying to complete an incremental backup.

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Florian Schröck (mael-reverted) said : 		#6

i switched to deja-dup (ubuntu's default)
it pauses the backup when shutting down and resumes afterwards

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Alba Nader (sharepass12) said : 		#7

I second the button of adding a button to at least stop the backup process. For me pausing is not a must.

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#8

+1 from me. I started a backup to the wrong place some hours ago, and it's over-filling my HD.

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Ostheim (pooflong) said : 		#10

Just delete /home/username/.local/share/backintime. That's where the informations are about the on-going back-up process. Don't worry, the config file is elsewhere (/home/username/.config/backintime). Then restart Back In Time.