How to avoid rsyncing incomplete uploads? (best practice on fileservers?)

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Wed Jan 21 01:05:08 GMT 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:37:38PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some big files are regularily updated on server A.
> 
> Rsync should sync that with Server B. 
> 
> If rsync starts in the middle of an upload process, will it copy that
> incomplete file to Server B? 
> 
> First tests showed it will. How can this be avoided?
> 
> 
> Comments on rsync-usage with big files and very active users would be
> very appreciated!
> 

You have asked several questions all of which are answered
in the archives.  Happy spelunking.

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