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...are now wanting to attempt to do a similar thing more often in a 'live' environment (doing hourly snapshots), and in testing to see how locked files were being handled I'm running into an issue both locally and over ssh. My test case: If I start dumping data to a file, say 'cat reallybigfile > newfilename' and then attempt to rsync that file well before the cat is done using the following: from a remote system: rsync -av -e ssh --numeric-ids root@somehost:/srcdir /destdir or locally rsync -av --numeric-ids /srcdir /destdir rsync will transfer a 'partial' file (whi...