A B ([email protected]) wrote on 16 June 2010 23:16: >How dangerous is acctually the --inplace option if you want to run >rsync to update files that are only read and not written to?
If they're not written to they don't change so that they don't need to be updated :-) >What is the worst that can happen? Depends on your usage. If there are readers during the sync they'll probably get a corrupted version; this is usually not acceptable. If it's a backup it's rarely a problem. However during the update you have no working backup; if there's a crash in the source in this period and you lose the original you lose everything. If you have multiple or incremental backups it's not a problem. -- 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
