10-11-2011
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linuxn00b
Hello all. This may seem like a dumb/easy question but right now I have a little script I made that uses rsync to sync a directory that has files in it that may or may not be complete files. I want to come up with a better solution for this. What it is is I have a directory lets say /incomplete that has files that could still be downloading or being transferred to that directory. I want to grab files in that /incomplete directory that are complete and move to another directory called /complete. Is there a good way of doing this so that I can only move completed files without corrupting or messing with the files that are not finished transferring to the /incomplete folder? Thanks in advance and I hope that I was clear.
This is more than just using rsync as a form of backup. What you really need is a list of files that are opened and then have rsync to exclude to backup those files. However, files could be opened and/or closed at the point when rsync has compiled a list of files to copy and started the backup process.
A better solution is to generate a list of open files and use snapshot to take a static copy of the entire file system. rsync the files from the static file system to the backup destination. At the end, ensure the opened files are closed and re-backup those files that are opened previously.
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