Prevent suspend/sleep while a restic command is running (Linux)

[damsab]

I know restic is designed to handle interruptions, however in the interest of time and data quotas when dealing with cloud storage, I'd be interested to know what means there are to prevent suspend/sleep while backrest is running a restic command.

I have come across systemd-inhibit, which seems ideal, however there doesn't seem to be a way to customize how Backrest executes the restic commands.

Running restic with systemd-inhibit would prevent the computer suspending/sleeping during a long operation such as a remote check or large backup. I'm currently using hooks at the beginning and end of each operation to disable/enable suspend-on-idle (via dconf) which I feel is a bit of a kludge, being able to use systemd-inhibit would be a more elegant solution.

Thanks!