Stop error notifications in bamboo

Question

Every night I am running bitbucket DIY backup this is automated using cron job. This will bring down bitbucket at the time of backup making it unavailable, but bamboo tries to connect bitbucket for checking repository changes and causes the problem, all plans try to connect and throw errors in bamboo. Is there a way or workaround to stop this occurrence in bamboo from checking repo at certain time frame.

Steffen Opel [Utoolity] · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately there is no official way to do achieve this, and it's a fairly highly voted improvement accordingly (one might actually consider it to be a bug, given it erroneously reports build errors) - please watch and vote for the following issue to further raise Atlassian's awareness of this major annoyance:

* Prevent Bamboo source code checkout if Stash is in maintenance mode (BAM-15792)

In terms of workaround, Anders Kjærgaard Hansen's comment provides an approach, though he qualifies it as an 'ugly hack' himself ;)