[Django]-Execute background process from django that can't be interrupted by the web server

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Maybe less elegant, but definitely most simple, I scheduled my process for “now” with the at command. Done.

os.system("echo '/usr/bin/python /(somewhere)/scripts/backup/testbackup.py' | at now")

👤andyortlieb

[Django]-Is there a reason I should be dissuaded from using an alternative templating engine in my Django app?

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You need to use a completely separate process for the backup. The best way to do this is to use a message queue – the view puts the backup request on the queue, and a separate listener picks it up and runs the backup, independently of Apache.

Celery is a distributed task manager that deals with all this for you, although it would be fairly easy to roll your own with RabbitMQ and the Python AMQP library.

👤Daniel Roseman