The command line option --batchmode means that SpiderOak One or Groups will do all available work (scan the filesystem, then build and upload everything in the queue, download and replay transactions from other devices), and then exit. This is a good option for scheduled use. You can add this to a cron job, or just run it yourself periodically whenever you want to update your backup set.
The application is also careful not to start more than one instance of itself at a time. For example, if you schedule it to run in --batchmode each night, and for the first few days, it has so much to upload that it does not finish before the next scheduled startup time, you don’t need to worry about coming back to find several instances running.
This command is laconic by default. If you would like to see what it is doing, add --verbose.
If you need to terminate the process before it completes, simply kill it as you would kill any process on your operating system. No special procedure is necessary.
A similar option is --headless; see the article "--headless and --batchmode compared" for more information.
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