Activating maintenance mode from bash script

Hi members,

I am very happy with the plugin, it works just fine when I activate it in the WP settings.

Now I would like to activate the maintenance mode from the shell (cron job with backup script), so that maintenance mode is active while the database is dumped.

Is there a command available, or do I have to create some file in some directory to activate the plugin?

 

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