backup-takedown - Bring some system services down for backups

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Debian                                              July 2003                                 BACKUP-TAKEDOWN(1)

       `backup-takedown'  is  for running a reduced level of system services during backups. To use this command
       you need to configure init by setting up runlevel 5 to provide the level of services you want, and to run
       backup-driver automatically on entering runlevel 5.

/etc/chiark-backup/warnings.*
              Files specifying what number and frequency of warnings will be produced.

       /etc/chiark-backup/settings.pl
              Configuration file for the whole of chiark-backup

       backup-takedown - Bring some system services down for backups

freq   `freq' may be `now', `soon' or nothing depending on the number of warning messages desired - these
              correspond to warnings.* files.

backup-takedown[freq]