On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:41 -0700, Mohammed AlQuraishi wrote: > I have a situation where the files I'm backing up are written to every > fifteen minutes or so. There's a good possibility that rsync will try > to copy a file while it is being written into, and I'm wondering if > there's any risk that the _source_ file will be damaged? I've seen > similar posts about the target file, but my concern is the source.
I've never heard of a file being damaged by reading it. > Additionally, would the writing program be blocked from writing to the > file if rsync is reading the file? Not on unix-like systems. OTOH, I believe Windows enforces read/write locking, so rsync could not have the file open for reading at the same time as another process has it open for writing. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
