Sven wrote:
> Thanks for feedback.
>
> After doing a little bit research I found that the application (Apache
> Tomcat) and backup (Veritas NetBackup) was running during the copy
> job.
>
> What influence have a running Tomcat and NetBackup on rsync?
> What rsync (running as root) do if there are read-only files?
That's generally not a problem, but you'll get a snapshot of changing
files, like growing logfiles, and if a file is deleted while still open
it will still consume space on the source as seen by 'df' until the
application closes it or exits but it won't be copied.
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Les Mikesell
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