QUESTION: Add a hook to check if I am running borgmatic manually in a terminal #729

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lyndhurst · 2023-07-22T11:42:09Z

lyndhurst commented

2023-07-22 11:42:09 +00:00

What I'm trying to do and why

Hi, first of all, thanks for this incredible tool.
I have been spending time over the past week configuring my backups, this is such an elegant way to make use of borg !

Thanks to the very complete and hands on documentation, I managed to do everything I needed, and even more, so I am sorry if I missed something.

I would like to use some before hook to check if borgmatic is being run manually in the terminal or as a 'background process' with cron or systemd. I think it is possible since borgmatic does it to write output to the stdout or syslog, but I have no idea how to go about it..

My first thought was to check if we are in an interactive shell, but all my attempts failed. The best I came up with is the following:

  before_actions:
    - "[[ $- == *i* ]] || exit 75"
    # Since I am usually using zsh, I tried that as well
    - "[[ -o interactive ]] || exit 75"

.

The commands are executed since I get an exit code 75, but they do not work in the sense that I get that soft error code even when running borgmatic manually from the terminal.

I also found a lead checking with test -t 0 but had no luck there either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

### What I'm trying to do and why Hi, first of all, thanks for this incredible tool. I have been spending time over the past week configuring my backups, this is such an elegant way to make use of borg ! Thanks to the very complete and hands on documentation, I managed to do everything I needed, and even more, so I am sorry if I missed something. I would like to use some `before` hook to check if borgmatic is being run manually in the terminal or as a 'background process' with cron or systemd. I think it is possible since borgmatic does it to write output to the stdout or syslog, but I have no idea how to go about it.. My first thought was to check if we are in an interactive shell, but all my attempts failed. The best I came up with is the following: ```yaml before_actions: - "[[ $- == *i* ]] || exit 75" # Since I am usually using zsh, I tried that as well - "[[ -o interactive ]] || exit 75" ``` . The commands are executed since I get an exit code 75, but they do not work in the sense that I get that soft error code even when running `borgmatic` manually from the terminal. I also found a lead checking with `test -t 0` but had no luck there either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

lyndhurst changed title from ~~QUESTION: Check if I am running config manually~~ to QUESTION: Add a hook to check if I am running config manually in a terminal

2023-07-22 13:35:04 +00:00

lyndhurst changed title from ~~QUESTION: Add a hook to check if I am running config manually in a terminal~~ to QUESTION: Add a hook to check if I am running borgmatic manually in a terminal

2023-07-22 13:35:30 +00:00

witten commented

2023-07-22 17:50:58 +00:00

Interesting use case! Have you tried looking at the value of the $TERM environment variable when borgmatic is run interactively vs. non-interactively? That may be one relatively easy way to differentiate within a hook.

Interesting use case! Have you tried looking at the value of the `$TERM` environment variable when borgmatic is run interactively vs. non-interactively? That may be one relatively easy way to differentiate within a hook.

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lyndhurst commented

2023-07-24 12:37:31 +00:00

Thank you for the pointer, I did not try that approach. I am not fluent at all with bash, so I think I understood that my way of testing was wrong anyway.

I am going to try out in a different setting and post back if I was successful, or understand better why I am not. So , I will close this issue for now and reopen when I will have more time to spend on that one.

Thanks again.

Thank you for the pointer, I did not try that approach. I am not fluent at all with bash, so I think I understood that my way of testing was wrong anyway. I am going to try out in a different setting and post back if I was successful, or understand better why I am not. So , I will close this issue for now and reopen when I will have more time to spend on that one. Thanks again.

lyndhurst closed this issue

2023-07-24 12:37:31 +00:00

witten commented

2023-07-24 16:07:44 +00:00

Sounds good! Let me know if you end up needing more formal support from borgmatic for this.

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