jtyost2/S3_Backup — Issue #5: Possible WWW folder backup fail
Author: f3llony
Created: 2012-01-30 03:49:13+00:00
State: open

Tar are known to fail when one or more files has changed while archiving them. This would not be an issue with static files, but it is with dynamic ones, like web pages, where temp or session files are stored within www root somewhere or CMS itself creates files while serving users, for example, caches and such.
Therefore there MUST be a fail-safe mechanism in script like this, e.g. ability to exclude files or equivalent.