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From: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: somewhat wrong archive_command example
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:29:54 -0300
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On 17-08-2012 16:51, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Btw., is anyone else concerned about using plain cp for this?  If the cp fails
> half-way, it leaves a partial file around, but subsequent file existence
> checks will find the file OK and skip it.
> 
I've already faced this problem (with cp and scp).

> I have occasionally used some combination of mktemp + cp + mv, which seems to
> work around this problem.
> 
That's what rsync uses, no? Your suggestion or rsync seem safe options to me.
But if you insist on an academic example using cp, at least comment that it
can fail in some cases.


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