On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Don Delp <nesma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't think of this, but I bet robocopy sees that the log file is
> different from the original when new data is added to it.  I don't
> know if it does a checksum or just checks the timestamp, but that
> would explain the behavior.  It sees that your log file is different
> and assumes that resuming would corrupt your data.
>

You are probably right.


> If this is the case, you might be back to figuring out how to loop
> through the file a few KB at a time.
> I don't think this is the answer in your enviroment, but I'll throw it
> out there anyway:
>
> Wget has a resumable download option where it grabs the target file
> starting at the point where the local copy leaves off.  I'm pretty
> sure that it ignores timestamps and etags and only goes by file size.
> If you could create a vhost and restrict it to access from localhost,
> and use the log folder as the web root, and get the Delorean up to
> 88mph, you might be able to get your log.


I'll just run "tail -f > other_log_file" and read that one.  Oh wait... it
is windows so no tail command...

Andy

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