Re: [BackupPC-users] Determine, whether a backup is running in a bash script

[Peter V. <pe...@vr...>]

Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> Hi,
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> My server is running a shutdown script regularly, checking, whether a t=
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> server is being used or not. This works fine for all services I use. No=
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> I'd like to add a backuppc to this.
> How can I determine in a bash-script, whether a backup is running?

look for the processes?

eg:
if ( ! ps auxx | grep -q "/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump" ); then
	echo "shutdown"
fi

dont know if all process look like this, but prob. just start a backup
by hand and take a look at it

hth
Peter
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#!/bin/bash
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[...] doch hat das script eine gewisse morbide Eleganz
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