File changed during save....
Tony Abernethy
tony at servacorp.com
Sun Sep 16 16:23:57 GMT 2007
Matt McCutchen wrote:
>
> On 9/15/07, roland <devzero at web.de> wrote:
> > what`s the rsync equivalent to this?
> > how can i see which files changed while rsync was
> transferring them ?
>
> Handling of concurrent changes to source files is one of rsync's
> weaknesses. The rsync sender naively reads each source file from
> beginning to end and sends what it sees; it doesn't detect if source
> files change while being transferred. In many cases, the concurrent
> modification will leave the source file with an mtime different from
> the mtime rsync saw when it statted the file during file-list building
> (which gets set on the destination file), so a subsequent rsync run
> will fix the corrupted destination file. See this thread for more
> information:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-January/014534.html
>
> Matt
> --
Note that back-to-back rsyncs make the window of opportunity much
much smaller for things to change during transit.
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