[Borgbackup] best way to stop borgbackup?

Alberto Luaces borgbackup at aluaces.fastmail.com
Sat Jun 29 05:50:26 EDT 2019


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, at 00:29, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> I am aware of this, its how to avoid an unclean shutdown that I am
> asking about.  Accidental terminations will occur (accidents) but I am
> asking if there is a way to ensure a clean requested shutdown of a borg
> instance before normal completion.  A kill will leads to locks left
> behind, and recently other errors requiring time consuming investigation
> and recovery.

In my experience, CTRL+C works ok, and lets me resume the backup afterwards, without leaving any locks behind.

It is the equivalent of "kill -SIGINT <pid>", right?

-- 
  Alberto


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