[PATCH] Ensure that rsync backups are only running one at a time

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 24 16:18:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 10:54 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>  # Sync out
>  for host in db01 db02 db03; do
> +    # Sleep if any other rsyncs are already
> +    while ssh $host "pgrep rsync" | grep -q [0-9]; do sleep 10; done 

Seems like a pretty wide net, what if somebody is rsyncing something
else to/from that box?  Would it not be better to make use of a
lockfile?

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Jesse Keating
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