Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Filechange during backup

[Neil]

Hi,

one good workaround if you can is to use and lvm snapshot

you take a snapshot and back that up then remove the snapshot

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html

Neil

On Friday 07 January 2005 10:31, Olav Langeland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from the rdiff-backup error policy:
> "These are usually caused by a file being modified as rdiff-backup is
> processing it. The error log calls these UpdateErrors.
> When this type of error occurs, rdiff-backup will pretend that the file
> is the same as it is in the destination directory. For an incremental
> backup, this means that no new increment will be written, and the mirror
> copy will not be updated."
>
> Found this out when I tried to backup web- and maillogs. Any workaround
> for it? Not counting rotating logs before backup or making a separate
> scp command for logfiles. I would be happy with something that makes
> rdiff-backup ignore filesize changing during backup and just copy the
> file :)
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Olav Langeland
>
>
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