>From Vineet Kumar on Tuesday, 2003-06-03 at 12:37:58 -0700: > Anybody know OTTOYH how rsync would behave if an input file was changed > while it was doing its thing? Does it check checksums after syncing a > file? If it does, does it go back and try again if they don't match? > I'm migrating some huge files over a not-too-fast link, and other users > may write to these files during the rsync operation. If rsync doesn't > handle this well, any suggestions for something that might?
I have heard of people successfully using rsync to download a corrected version of a corrupted CD---only the corrections were downloaded, not the whole CD. This was over a modem. I hope your connection is not any slower than that! > I've also considered running rsync multiple times, so that on successive > passes it will pick up the changes. I just hope that the first pass > won't generate inconsistent files on the target side if the file changes > in the middle. This was the first idea that occured to me, too. I would guess that more sophisticated procedures are possible, but I do not know what they might be. Conrad > > Just thought I'd ask before digging into the code. > > thanks, > Vineet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
