On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:07:29PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:02:29PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My backup script fails to --delete because it gets some I/O errors from > > mounted live windows partitions with (locked?) files. > > > > Is there a workaround for that problem, short of --ignore-errors which > > would be last-resort? > > > > It's kind of strange, but you could use NFS. > > Install the components for windows for use as a NFS-server. > > You will have no problems with locked files. > > Running a rsync-daemon on the machine is also an option, possible you would > need some kind of VSS-solution.
Thanks for your suggestion. If I'm not mistaken, only "server" versions of windows support NFS as a server? The VSS solution looks interesting too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy). Could I mount (still with smbfs as I do now) a VSS shadow copy instead of the actual file system? Or does VSS require the backup to happen on the windows machine itself? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html