Le 28/12/2009 06:58, Zhang Weiwu a écrit :

Dear all

I was wondering is there a best practice or conventional suggestion that software should not write temporary files in user's home directory, but do it on /tmp/ or /var/tmp?

I ask this because when I want to backup a live user profile usually it fails thanks to file size change during backup.

true temporary files (that is ones that are unimportant) don't have to be backed, so just --exclude them (using rsync). config files, caches, have to be examined to understand wich is important and wich are not :-( anyway, backup (and restore!) open files is not that easy see google, for example http://www.ultrabac.com/techsupport/50white-papers/lfb_api.asp (this is a proprietary application site, but the explanation is pretty general) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org