On Fri 16 Apr 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > Additionally, would the writing program be blocked from writing to the
> > file if rsync is reading the file?
>
> Not on unix-like systems. OTOH, I believe Windows enforces read/write
> locking, so rsync could not have the file open for reading at th
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:41 -0700, Mohammed AlQuraishi wrote:
> I have a situation where the files I'm backing up are written to every
> fifteen minutes or so. There's a good possibility that rsync will try
> to copy a file while it is being written into, and I'm wondering if
> there's any risk tha
Hi,
I have a situation where the files I'm backing up are written to every fifteen
minutes or so. There's a good possibility that rsync will try to copy a file
while it is being written into, and I'm wondering if there's any risk that the
_source_ file will be damaged? I've seen similar posts
