.gvfs and why does this happen?

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 19:06 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,

[ snip ]

sorry can't help you to understand this inconsistency, others tried to.

> Yet If I am physically logged on to the machine (not via ssh) the error 
> message is not issued. This is causing problems with a network backup 
> scheme I am attempting to implement.
> 
> What is the cause and is there a fix?

Since you are planning a backup scheme, you might be interested in my
approach:

In my LAN backup solution based on rsync, I implement the following
policy to ensure consistent backups:

- If $USER is logged in (console or remote) at backup time,
  /home/$USER is excluded from the backup - this is easy.

- If a process has it's working directory anywhere below $HOME for
  some user not logged in at backup time, $HOME is excluded (this
  not as easy, copes with detached jobs running under nohup).

- While /home/$USER is backed up, $USER login is disabled (easy).

- Should a user arrange for starting a job e.g. via cron or at, that
  runs while a backup is processing /home/$USER, it's $USER's
  responsibility to ensure the backup is consistent.  I really have no
  idea how to reliably detect this one.  Suggestions not involving
  analyzing crontabs, atqs &c. anyone?

Users know this policy and are reminded 5 minutes before a backup
starts.  With backups running every 3 hours this policy seems
to work quite well.

Thanks for listening, comments welcome
  Siggy
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