I've put together a suite of free commandline programs and scripts that allow a
XP user to via Rsync to copy any part of their C: drive including open files.
In effect allow them to backup all their C: drive.
It uses cwrsync for windows.
Vshadow and dosdev, free programs from Microsoft, to
Rsync does not handle open files. Your operating system does. Either
the OS allows rsync access, or it doesn't. Quick crib sheet:
Normal behavior for *BSD or Linux systems: the root user has access to
any file, at any time. Non-root users may or may not, depending on
system configuration,
anyone happen to know how NetApp's DataONTAP handles open files?
matt
On Aug 2, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Jim Salter wrote:
Rsync does not handle open files. Your operating system does. Either
the OS allows rsync access, or it doesn't. Quick crib sheet:
Normal behavior for *BSD or Linux systems: the
anyone happen to know how NetApp's DataONTAP handles open files?
matt
On Aug 2, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Jim Salter wrote:
Rsync does not handle open files. Your operating system does. Either
the OS allows rsync access, or it doesn't. Quick crib sheet:
When rsync copies a file, it
On 25 Jul 2002, Childs, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings.
I have been looking around the web for information about what rsync does
when the file being copied from is open and changing, but haven't seen this
topic discussed anywhere. If you know of any place this is discussed, could
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:44:18AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:29:42PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
The Problem:
Since the script runs once a minute, it is possible for the rsync to start
while a file is still being transferred to us. What appears to happen at
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:29:42PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
Background:
Our web application picks up files from a repository and processes them --
the repository is accessed by clients using SFTP. There is an rsync script
running once per minute to sync up the client's data on the SFTP
Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:29:42PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
...
So, is there any way to have rsync skip certain files, if they are not
complete? There doesn't appear to be any obvious way to do this. Could
the rsync process be the reason that
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:44:18AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
There is really no way around that problem with rsync. Many other people
have tried to do similar things and the wisdom on the mailing list has
always been that rsync via cron is the wrong tool for applications that
have data that
