[Box Backup] Disturbing bug

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Jan Haastrecht wrote:

> The following line in BUGS.txt in SVN seems rather disturbing: "if a 
> file changes while it's being streamed to the server, bad things will 
> happen"
>
> Perhaps it's just an old line, perhaps not. If it's still a current bug, 
> can you fix it? If it's not, can you update the file?
>
> Either way, it gives a bad impression.

I'm not sure how possible it is to fix this without snapshot support in 
the underlying OS/filesystem/storage, integrated with Box Backup, which we 
don't currently have except on Windows using VSS (unsupported).

If you have that infrastructure (e.g. LVM, BSD snapshots) then the best 
way to work around it is to take a snapshot before backup and back up the 
snapshot instead of the live data.

Cheers, Chris.
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