On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
Just keep in mind that a file, if open, may be in some state only a
mother could
love. You really have to be selective about saving open files, or eventually you
will save a file which is not in a useful state.
Nothing relevant to the present scenario!
That said, you can find files modified since the last save and save
them with
whatever means you wish, such as rsync.
Would search about it ('rsync').
This is an example, remember I just made it up:
touch next-save
find . -name *.txt -mnewer last-save -mmin +10 >save-list
rsync -a --files-from=save-list DESTINATION &&
mv next-save last-save
I try this example.
Save files modified since the previous save, but untouched for ten
minutes,
since that improves your chance that the file is in a useful state, retry until
the backup succeeds.
Run that as a script every hour or so.
NOTE: this is one of dozens of solutions, unless the data in the
files is vastly
valuable I'd just back them all up once a day. That's me, the cost of backup
should not be greater than the cost of recreation.
Yes, thanks for this information. I would try these.
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia