[PLUG] What are .lock files
Russell Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Fri Apr 25 21:54:41 UTC 2008
My command of choice to copy files from one filesystem to another is
the following:
'cd /this/is/the/source/directory; find . | cpio -pdm /this/is/the/
destination/directory/'
Others will mention theirs, I'm sure.
On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Every time I try to do a backup it stops when it hits a .lock file.
> This kills dead the idea of unattended backups. Using locate I find a
> dozen of them on my hard disk.
>
> It takes only 15 minutes to complete a backup of ~/, but it's annoying
> to come back to the computer only to discover that the backup stopped
> halfway through when it hit a .lock file.
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Russell Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Dimension 7 Consulting.
Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS/X
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