Win32 and Backing up open files

[Swarbrick Software]

St Bernard Software developed a module of their open file manager to work
with my software, SOS Standby Server, which uses rsync.
You can order the module for SOS from St Bernard and it will work with any
implementation of rsync. The open file manager runs on the windows machine
and it detects when rsync connects to it.  It works great and will allow you
to back up ANY open file, even system files.

It would be way cool if rsync could somehow deal with open files without a
third party file manager, as the St Bernard Open file manager costs about
$500.00.
I hope someone undertakes this.

Mark
Swarbrick Software
www.sosstandbyserver.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rsync-bounces+sales=sosstandbyserver.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:rsync-bounces+sales=sosstandbyserver.com at lists.samba.org]On Behalf
Of Tarun Karra
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:21 PM
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Win32 and Backing up open files

hey,,

It was long back that i read the "white paper"  for st.Bernard Open file
manager.
I felt some similarity between stbernard open file manager and RSYNC. One
similarity is both of them break the file into peices.

What stbernad open file manager does is it continually moniters the system.
It maintains peices of files that are being used by different process. When
ever you try to backup some file which is open by any process."WRITE LOCK"
.The backup software can backup the peices of file that is not being written
to and the st bernard open file manager gives the previous version of the
peice of file that is being written to. So what i think essentially happens
is you cannot have a real-time backup but you are guarenteed to have a
backup with some delay.

CAN we design RSYNC Client and Server in a way that it does some thing
similar to this.

Correct me if iam wrong.
just a thought.

tarun


Jason Haar <Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz> wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:07, Jason M. Felice wrote:
> I now fully and completely remember why I hate Windows.
>

Good. Everyone needs reminding now and then :-)

> ... a program
> under Windows can _NOT_ open a file which has been opened if the
> original opener has not specified read sharing. No matter what.

Yup. That's part of the reason why you have to use "special" versions of
NTBackup/etc to backup Exchange and SQL servers. As these files are
always in use, there is no way you can read 'em.

On a Unix system, you can still access/backup your SQL databases as
files - even when they are in use. Whether that's a good idea I leave
for others to discover the hard way... ;-)

Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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