From 3bd0af76ddec6004e9e794fd821e0809123cc4a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Julian-Samuel=20Geb=C3=BChr?= Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:47:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add information on how to manually run the backup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Julian-Samuel Gebühr --- docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md b/docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md index 41ca0156..0fda66da 100644 --- a/docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md +++ b/docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md @@ -73,3 +73,9 @@ After configuring the playbook, run the [installation](installing.md) command ag ``` ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,start ``` + +## Manually start a backup + +For testing your setup it can be helpful to not wait until 4am. If you want to run the backup immediately, log onto the server +and run `systemctl start matrix-backup-borg`. This will not return until the backup is done, so possibly a long time. +Consider using [tmux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux) if your SSH connection is unstable.