Cygwin: Back up open files?

[Linus Hicks]

Ronan Guilfoyle wrote:
>  
> I'm going a little further than that;
> 
> The script backs up all open files on the server, but I sync them
> directly to a standby server with Exchange installed (services are shut
> down to allow me to write to the databases).
> 
> The same scripts also transfer SQL databases and general office docs.
> 
> My particular Exchange issue is that the Rsync delta transfer does not
> seem to find much similatities between copies of the PRIV1.EDB.  These
> copies are made a few days apart so there should be minimal data
> differences, possibly a few hundred mails but no more.  The Sync seems
> to transfer the whole file again (or nearly the whole file).

You said in your original post that you are doing a nightly defrag on your .EDB 
files. Doesn't that basically rearrange the whole file? Have you tried not doing 
the nightly defrag to see how much data rsync transfers?

Linus