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 receiving
server. I
first thought of using rsync for this, but it seems --remove-source-
files has no way of checking if the file is open or not, so if the
receiving process is still writing to a file, rsync will transfer the
file and unlink() it without bothering if the file has been
modified any
further, effectively resulting in a corrupt file. I solved this
with a
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 just something like --ignore-open-files?
roy
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