preventing multiple rsync processes backing up same file with cron backup

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM, snowc <chsnow123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does rsync ignore this partially copied file, or does it try to copy it
> across again in the second cron job?
>

If the one job catches up with the other, they will both copy the same file,
each to its own temp file.  If you have delete processing going on, one
rsync may even delete a temp file for the other (if the delete scan happens
at the right time).

..wayne..
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