On 06/09/2016 11:14 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Rsync processes one file at a time, so if the files are being updated > while its running, the differnet files will be copied at different > times. This is usually fine for static archives of files and such, > but unsuitable for a database server where random updates are being > made of various files and they all have to be consistent. You could create a snapshot and then rsync that to a backup: https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer/dragonsdawn-snapshot You could also use the "snapshot" project with rsnapshot, using this patch: https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot/pull/44