X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:content-type :content-id:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; q=dns; s= default; b=JtZw4eznStsim5s8vOrKV5WcbjNQo759Kx7eCdya+kSf8NZrjJtiC 68DI+gA7TDovb2B+XmCsaZrh4yRMfaXWHOc2IpMR0UanakpLjC1N6KGPuDYVNBW3 RgAA3suEwZiAET6jO0Sc3N/nvtpQQ96mBy0H3aQIYeKlZNurkF9F9E= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:content-type :content-id:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; s=default; bh=QlJYMPshWsxJLdoezJEhXn363vo=; b=YiK/YboFHn3ABL9rzT3OvCKkB6cH 1isbJ0nkh0J+FaOoQFElsu/1TEugDht/9V/n1ieaPSdrQZHtOYcy6nq4A2mLi3YY a7+MZkYEhWRHhq8ucctXLaHxXuEnAHzBibcFXlqWYpzBHVnpU8JO8jJ3OyhYanhN 4aTWEeF0SuEeElM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: um-nip3-missouri-out.um.umsystem.edu X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai8FAMoqtlLPoJ7Q/2dsb2JhbABSBoMLgQ25QIESFnSCJwWBCwEqVicEDQgCBId8ohuiUoYSjjooEoNbgRMEiQuhIIMtgio X-IPAS-Result: Ai8FAMoqtlLPoJ7Q/2dsb2JhbABSBoMLgQ25QIESFnSCJwWBCwEqVicEDQgCBId8ohuiUoYSjjooEoNbgRMEiQuhIIMtgio From: "Winkel, Richard J." To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: "Device or resource busy" during read (rsync) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:02:10 +0000 Message-ID: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id rBM02U9o016055 I have a hard time believing this is an unusual question but I swear I've been googling everywhere without an answer! :) I'm using rsync (under cygwin) to backup windows servers to a linux box and it's working wonderfully, except that if a file is open rsync can't access it even for reading. I know some windows-based backup programs don't have the problem so I'm hoping there's some way to avoid it in cygwin. I've looked at the cygwin mount options but don't see anything obvious. Is there a way around it? Thanks for any help!!! Rich -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple