A question about rsync

Guo jing
2004-06-07T03:48:26Z

Thanks for your answer!
Yes,my question is that if we can get a good result when the file is
changing while it is being copied by rsync

In my test, if the file is being augmented while it been copied using
rsync.I can get a normal copy on the other end and the result file is the
same as what the source file is when the rsync scanning. The same result
can be gotten if the sour file is reduced and the blocks were not occupied.

As you said, if the source file reduced and the blocks were occupied by
other files there will be a file with other file's content and a abnormal
end on the other end.

So,is this true that we can't deal with this problem except to do some
changes with the OS ?

   Regards,
    GuoJing

> >   The condition is like this: The source file that I want to rsync to
> > another computer is 129M before I start the rsync. During the running
of
> > the rsync,the file was changed and became to about 50M, then the rsync
> > ended. When I view the destination, I found that the file was 129M.
And
> > there were some contents of the files added when the rsync was
running.
> >
> >  After that, I do some tests about the rsync:
> >
> >       1. After I start the rsync to backup a file, I delete the file
> > during the rsync is running, I found the file can been backuped
normally.
> >       2. While the rsync is backuping a file name sourfile (50M), I
add
> > some content by the command "cat addfile >> sourfile"
to enlarge the
file
> > to 100M. After the rsync finished.I found the file is still 50M.
> >
> >    The question is that , how the rsync copy a file to another
computer
at
> > the first time ? My attitude is that it remenbers the physical blocks
the
> > file used when the rsync scaned. Then ,rsync will send the blocks to
the
> > destination no matter if the file or the block has changed. So, is
that
> > right?? Who can tell me how the rsync decide which contents should to
send
> > to the destiation?
>
>I'm not sure I understand the question, sorry.
>
>If you change a file while it is being copied by rsync you may end up
>with undefined results on the other end.  There is not much that can
>be done about this without os-level version control.
>

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