rsync - Jul 2010 - Linux, rsync files excluding open/busy files

Hi,

I read many posts about this, faq, googled, and finally got to write here.

The scenario/question is this:
I want to transfer files from Server B -> Server C
the problem is that, files that are to be transfered may be open/busy,
meaing they are "not still complete, " or they are open while rsync is
run.

Is there a way to automatically handle these open files using rsync ,
rsync options ?
I mean, It should be like " copy/rsync files to Server C, but exclude
'already open' files"

I can handle this using lsof and excluding files individually, but, I
would rather prefer rsync handles this automatically.

If this feature is not present in rsync, I ask developers: this would
be a very nice feature, something like "rsync --exclude-open-files
sourcefiles dest/"

Thanks.

On 14.07.2010 12:06, bvidinli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read many posts about this, faq, googled, and finally got to write here.
> 
> The scenario/question is this:
> I want to transfer files from Server B -> Server C
> the problem is that, files that are to be transfered may be open/busy,
> meaing they are "not still complete, " or they are open while
rsync is
> run.
> 
> Is there a way to automatically handle these open files using rsync ,
> rsync options ?
> I mean, It should be like " copy/rsync files to Server C, but exclude
> 'already open' files"
> 
> I can handle this using lsof and excluding files individually, but, I
> would rather prefer rsync handles this automatically.
> 
> If this feature is not present in rsync, I ask developers: this would
> be a very nice feature, something like "rsync --exclude-open-files
> sourcefiles dest/"
I personally would also like such a feature.

Altough i think somthing mtime based should suffice.
Something like "--min-age=60s", mtime has to be at least 60 seconds in
the past. And i would restrict that to "real files", IOW 
directories/symlinks and so forth can't be "too new".

And maybe an option for selecting if the min-age shall be relative to 
the point in time the file is 'stat'ed or relative to the point in time 
rsync was started.




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