remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
hi We have a box here connected to an antenna receiving rather large amounts of metheorological data from a satellite. the data is received and ransferred to another box and removed from the receiving server. I first thought of using rsync for this, but it seems --remove-source- files has

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: We have a box here connected to an antenna receiving rather large amounts of metheorological data from a satellite. the data is received and ransferred to another box and removed from the receiving server. I first thought of using rsync

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
On 3. juni. 2009, at 12.34, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: We have a box here connected to an antenna receiving rather large amounts of metheorological data from a satellite. the data is received and ransferred to another box and removed from the

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I would solve this not using rsync, but by writing the active file in a separate directory, or by first writing to a special filename and renaming when done (like firefox adds .part to the filename while it is still downloading it). Why not

WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

2009-06-03 Thread JW
A nightly scripted rsync backup job is giving me this error WARNING: vm/escDebLenny14G-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). I've searched the web and I think probably the problem is the source file changed during the copy. However, I haven't seen any

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
On 3. juni. 2009, at 18.16, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I would solve this not using rsync, but by writing the active file in a separate directory, or by first writing to a special filename and renaming when done (like firefox adds .part to the

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: On 3. juni. 2009, at 18.16, Paul Slootman wrote: Because checking whether a process has a file open can be very costly in system resources. Not really. I'm writing some code doing this now. It will be Linux Well, it's not something to do

Re: remove-source-files checking for open files?

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
On 3. juni. 2009, at 19.31, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: On 3. juni. 2009, at 18.16, Paul Slootman wrote: Because checking whether a process has a file open can be very costly in system resources. Not really. I'm writing some code doing this now.

Re: WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

2009-06-03 Thread Mac User FR
You can't copy the disk image of a vm while the guest OS is running. Best regards, Vitorio Le 3 juin 09 à 18:58, JW a écrit : A nightly scripted rsync backup job is giving me this error WARNING: vm/escDebLenny14G-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). I've

rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

2009-06-03 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi Folks, Recently I took the patch Elias Penttilä wrote and 'forward-ported' it to rsync 3. For people who don't know what it does, it implements backup of open files on Windows with rsync. Because I think rsync 3 is more efficient and more current in comparison to rsync 2. I made a small

Re: rsync --daemon. Can I open more than one instances?

2009-06-03 Thread Daniel.Li
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 20:57 -0500, Rahul Nabar wrote: Is there a way to speed up rsync by opening more than one daemon in parallel. daemon will create a process when a connection is established. So the limit is hardware. I use rsync --daemon to start rsync. I was wondering if opening more