code 11: files changed during backup

Greetings,

I have got two suggestions how to deal with the situation when a file changes 
while being backed up with dar -- I mean the cases where code 11 is returned. 
There are two approaches that could both be implemented at the same time:

1. If dar encounters a changing file during backup, dar could re-try to 
backup this file several times, until it succeeds in getting a clean copy of 
it. The number of re-tries (before giving up on that file) could be set using 
a command line option.

2. If dar fails to integrate a file cleanly into the archive (maybe even 
though dar tried several times to do so, but the file keeps changing 
rapidly), this file could be marked as 'unclean' (or such) in the archive. On 
extraction, the user could decide whether such files should be extracted or 
not.

What do you think?


Regards, Lasse


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