[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
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