By the way, what's the point of doing this?  Are your drives unreliable?

> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc.
>>> I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running.
>>> If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run
>>> e2fsck -fp $device
>>>
>>> What is about BackupPC_link? Should I check for this process too?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> There are further processes for which I should wait before unmounting
>>> the
>>> device?
>>>
>>
>> BackupPC_nightly
>>
>> BackupPC_trashClean is started by the BackupPC service, but the dump and
>> nightly jobs are (by default) schedule based, and the link follows a
>> dump.  The job queue is not retained over a shutdown-startup cycle.
>>
> Is there a way to retain the job queue? Or to check if anything is in it?
>
> Matthias
> --
> Don't Panic


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