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Para: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea; 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.
with this, ther
>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.
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 wou
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 j
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 s
