Re: Add pre-scan task?

> And am I correct to assume that because LMS is single-threaded, the scan
> process will wait for createBackup to finish? Is there any (hard-coded)

Correct. The scanner doesn't even know asynchronous calls.

> time-out that applies -at this pre-scan stage- of the importer, in case
> the backup takes a bit longer?

There's no timeout in the scanner.

> And what if, for some reason, createBackup throws an error? Will that
> make the whole scan process fail?

You'll have to handle this, to make sure the rest of the scanner doesn't 
crash. How are you planning to do the backup?