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Find if any processes is locking up files in directory

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George221

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Dec 2, 2005
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I need to backup a directory throughout the day but would like to know if any processes are currently locking up any of the files within this directory or subdirectories before I do so. Is there a command that would return this type of data?
Was planning on using the (tar cvf - . | gzip > /backupfile.tar.gz) command to do the backup.
Thanks.
 
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