This following info is in the Rsync mail archives but I'll refresh it.
There is a free vss toolkit you can get from Microsoft which allows you to
create shadow drives of local Windows harddrives.
I've put together this collection and an example script on how to backup
say the entire C: drive or
The short answer is It depends
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to determine if rsync is a sure method of backing
up servers (Linux and Windows) whose files are constantly
being accesed and are not able to be stoped they're services
for backing up purposes... I would use
could this copy correctly opened files?
it`s not a question if it`s open - it`s a question if you get a consistend copy.
with this, there is nothing which makes sure that the files doesn`t change
during transfer - so if it happens, on the target side you have a file
different from the source.
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Para: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea; rsync@lists.samba.org rsync@lists.samba.org
Enviado: Wed Sep 26 22:16:59 2007
Asunto: Re: Rsync and opened files
could this copy correctly opened files?
it`s not a question if it`s open - it`s a question if you get a consistend copy
This doesn't help with linux but a gentleman named Elias added vss
capabilities to rsync. However, the version is a bit old (I think 2.6 or
around there). As soon as 3 is out, I may try to go through it line by line
and add it into 3. Otherwise, check out microsoft's vss sdk. There's a bit
of
