[SOLVED] Do I need to disable cron jobs from running before doing a restore?

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I’m practicing updating nextcloud server before laying my hands on the real server with data on it. When I read the Admin Manual, I was told to backup first, so I hopped to the Backup and Restore part and learned how to backup and restore
I also want to practice restoring data, so I read the instructions of data restoring. While I have read that I need to disable the cron job before upgrading manually, I didn’t see such instructions in the Restoring backup section. Since I am, in fact, restoring backups on a existing nextcloud instance, is it also necessary to disable cron jobs? Or, since I already put the ncserver into maintenance mode in config.php before dong restoration, does that stops the cron jobs from being executed?

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Just had some experiment with my VM, put my server into maintenance mode and enabled the cron job to see what happened after a few hours. Then I disabled the cron job and leave maintenance mode to see if the background task has been executed.

It didn’t, the settings page shows the background task was executed 1 hour ago.

Hmmmmm :thinking:

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Hi Moresoka,
reading your questions I feel that you are some kind of a home-user?
If so, you might want to take a look at https://nextcloudpi.com/

NextcloudPi is a Nextcloud instance that is preinstalled, preconfigured and includes a management interface with all the tools you need to self host your private data in a single package.

Inside this NCP-management interface there are also scripts for for backup, update, restore that take care about your above detailed questions.

FYI: There is also a similar packacke called Nextcloud AIO - however I don’t know much details on this.

Hope that helps
schoetju

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The local ISP throttled access to nextcloud software download and blocked github, so I cannot use most software’s self update feature.

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To give a clear answer to your question: Yes!

You can find out this way:

set loglevel to “0”
enable maintenance mode
run the cronjob by hand
logecho (sifted out):

  "app": "cron",
  "message": "We are in maintenance mode, skipping cron",

Happy hacking

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