[BackupPC-users] Windows rsync

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

In testing a long time ago I noticed that rsync under
Windows would appear to succeed when copying files that
had byte ranges locked by other programs (for example
Outlook's *.pst file) but the copy would have nulls
filling the locked portion.  Does anyone know if this
is still the case with rsync 5.6, and is this a reasonable
way for a backup program to work?  That is, should we
consider it better to get all we can from a locked file
or to report the error?  Also, if this is still true it
probably means that we need the -c (always checksum)
argument to rsync since copies may appear to be complete
with matching sizes and timestamps when they aren't
exactly correct.

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  Les Mikesell
    le...@fu...