rsync on mounted windows partitions: I/O errors

[Leen Besselink]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:02:29PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My backup script fails to --delete because it gets some I/O errors from
> mounted live windows partitions with (locked?) files.
> 
> Is there a workaround for that problem, short of --ignore-errors which
> would be last-resort?
> 

Hi,

It's kind of strange, but you could use NFS.

Install the components for windows for use as a NFS-server.

You will have no problems with locked files.

Running a rsync-daemon on the machine is also an option, possible you would
need some kind of VSS-solution.

> Thanks,
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