Josh Nisly wrote:
One of my clients encountered an interesting bug in rdiff-backup -
under certain conditions, if a file changes while it is being backed
up, rdiff-backup throws an unhandled exception...
I can't help on the main problem, but as a workaround (and a better
approach anyway), users should backup from a snapshot - or, in Windows
terminology, a 'Volume Shadow'. This is the approach I take in my
TimeDicer script. That way files can't change or be locked during a
backup. (Note that it might still be possible for files to be in an
inconsistent state, though if the application manipulating them is
'volume shadow aware', they shouldn't be.)
Dominic
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