File Modification While Tar is in Progress

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Subject: File Modification While Tar is in Progress
From: Manish Kathuria <manish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:06:28 +0530
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I am using tar to take backups of multiple files and directories andsome of the files are about 500Mb. What happens when archiving of alarge file using tar (plus compression switches) is in progress and thefile is altered by some other program ? What do I need to do to makesure that my archive is not corrupted ? For example, the large file inquestion could be an IMAP mailbox on a Mail Server where I cannot affordto stop either the MTA or the IMAP server to prevent the file fromgetting altered.


Thanks,

Manish Kathuria

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