Hello Akeeba support team,
We would like to know if there is a way to run a pre-check step before a backup task can be performed.
It could be in the form of an executable script, or reading a file at some path.
Our use case is having NFS shares as target path. It can potentially lock up syscalls until they time out because the other end is in outage, for instance.
Our pre-script would test the availability of the target output path, with a timeout deadline, which is something I believe is not really possible at the PHP level.
As an aside, joomla.php is scheduled (cron) to run every minute and such requests will pile up if something goes wrong.
Best Regards,
Marc
