Stop backup in progress

[jose_manuel_Insausti]

NethServer Version: 7.5.1804
Module: backup

I have a backup configured against a remote vpn.
The process is very slow (10 days)
We are changing to a local device but when launching the backup it indicates that there is another previous one in process.

Is it possible to stop the current copy without causing problems?

What is the correct way to do it?

[LayLow (HF)]

Maybe this helps

Concurrent backup is running

Fix for the issue was to kill all backup-data-dup processes by issuing: ps -A | grep dup Then go to /var/lib/nethserver/backup/duplicity/backup-data/ and delete the lockfile. We were backing up to NAS via CIFS, but we also sometimes get an error on messages file such as “CIFS VFS: Server has not responded in 120 seconds. Reconnecting…”, hence the reason why the backup would not finish even though it’s only incremental, so we had to change the Nethserver backup to NFS.

[federico.ballarini]

I think you can retrieve the PID of the backup with “top” command (you’ll see “duplicity” process) and then kill it with this command: kill -SIGTERM pidnumber

[Diana72 (Diana Stephenson)]

Hey!
I am also the one facing the same backup problem against my remote VPN. Thanks to you for sharing such relevant information.
Regards