Re: blocking service on shutdown

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-09-02 15:37 GMT+02:00 Ralf Sieger <Ralf.Sieger@xxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I want my system to pause on shutdown to wait till my backup has finished if
> it is running.

I would suggest using an inhibitor lock when running your backup.
See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/

That's exactly the use-case it was designed for.


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