Urgent help request - accidently started data recovery

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Hi, anybody online - I just pressed “backup recovery” - can I stop this???

Please … the system is running right now and it is from Amazon S3 … I do not want to spend the money for an unneeded recovry…

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cc/ @support_team

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sorry, do not know what processes have to be stopped for that. Try to identify them using top (or similar) and lsof maybe

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To be precise:

I wanted to check the size of the backup so I came from

Cockpick - System - Backupup - restore (selected the backup from tonight)…

This is the one to Amazon S3, approx. 0.5 TB … which is not required.

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sorry lsof givs some 100 results. …
top lists “restic” as PID 3232 on top … which is obviously the restore process

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The banner is:

Background task in progress: a data restore is running.

How do I stop this ???

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if from top press k and write the process pid, or you can use another command like

pkill restic
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you can check (and stop if running) the script that initiated the restore process /usr/libexec/nethserver/api/nethserver-restore-data/execute (jq)

sorry, in your case, as the restore process was initiated from the backup page one of the process to kill could be:

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/restore-data-restic

any process referencing restore or restic

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THX, that one worked, but I am not sure if it stopped in the middle of overwriting some file. Do you know if I can somehow check?

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you would have to check the logs (for replaced files and so on), but do not recall if that information is logged. Otherwise you would have to find a way to check latest modified files.

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Thanks, marc, but do not believe I would have knowledge … I do not know anything about logs, how to find them and what to look for …