Source files in use or modified while transfer

2010-06-03 Thread HomeRun4711
Hi! I have a question on rsync's way to deal with files in use or files that are modified on the source while they are transferrred to the destination. Yes, I searched the web and found In rsync, transfers are done to a temporary file, which is cut over atomically, so the transfer either

Re: Source files in use or modified while transfer

2010-06-03 Thread Carlos Carvalho
HomeRun4711 (homerun4...@googlemail.com) wrote on 3 June 2010 11:27: I have a question on rsync's way to deal with files in use or files that are modified on the source while they are transferrred to the destination. [removed] But what if e.g. a large mailbox file is changed on the source

Re: Files in use

2001-12-02 Thread Martin Pool
On 28 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I have been watching and learning from this list for a couple of months now.. Here is my first question. If rsync comes across a file that is in use by somebody. What happens? Does the file get skipped or does the entire transfer halt?

Re: Files in use

2001-11-28 Thread robert
Hello all I have been watching and learning from this list for a couple of months now.. Here is my first question. If rsync comes across a file that is in use by somebody. What happens? Does the file get skipped or does the entire transfer halt? The command I am issuing is: rsync -a -c -v -o

RE: Files in use

2001-11-28 Thread matthew . 2 . burgess
it looks fairly stable (at least from the limited testing we've done on it so far). Matt. -Original Message- From: robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 00:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Files in use Hello all I have been watching and learning from