<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Jul 2024, at 11:08, t.schneider@disroot.org wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Could you please explain the idea behind this proposal?</p></div></blockquote></div><div>I assume you run three different services to do the backups.</div><div>Each with different parameters, month, weeek, day config.</div><div><br></div><div>flock allows you serialise the access to a resource, in your case "doing a backup".</div><div><br></div><div>Read man flock to undertstand what flock does and what the command should be.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div><div><br></div></body></html>