questions about --retry-on-change and --ref
imschmeg <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support |
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| Message-ID | <20210423122314.740d1f30@lapdog> |
With "--retry-on-change 0", will the resulting dar backup record anything about a file that changed while being read? If the file being changed stops changing prior to the dar backup completing, but late enough for that backup to abandon it, will a subsequent dar incremental backup using this one as --ref pick up the changes? If one dar archive is itself still being written while being used as a --ref argument for another, what will happen? I am triggering a dar backup (with --retyr-on-cahnge 0) after a user logs out, and there is a small possibility that the user will log in and out again before the first backup completes, and that the second backup will --ref the first. I am wondering if dar itself will fail gracefully in this case, or whether I have to use some mechanism to prevent any such overlap.