> inconsistent, right ? And we won't notice that the file being send
> is inconsistent.
rsync could stat the initial file after reading, and complain;
actually, doesn't it do something like that already, ISTR it at least
notices length changes...
> Somewhere in the '80s, standards shifted. It's recognized that a
Actually, systems like AFS (soon to be OpenAFS, in the next month or
so...) *do* "perfect" backups, involving creating "backup volumes" (a
useful thing to have around anyway, basically a nearly-free clone) and
then the offline backups are made from those. You still don't get
consistency across a collection of seperate files -- but if you want
that, you want a database instead, so use one :-)
