I saw a recommendation on the rclone forum to create a snapshot of the source before sync and then sync with the created snapshot.
I think this is a reasonable way to ensure that the sync operation can be completed without any changes to the source.
What are some suitable snapshot tools available for this purpose?
on windows, can create a snapshot in a few lines of dumb dos script
check out my handy, dandy wiki
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/How-to-enable-VSS-for-rclone
Thank you for your reply.
But I use Linux.
Can you be more specific when you have questions?
Because your question style answer here would be "Use Linux tools"
Here some examples (including Linux):
https://cyounkins.medium.com/correct-backups-require-filesystem-snapshots-23062e2e7a15
In general on Linux you need some modern filesystem like ZFS or BTRFS to use snapshots.
Some OSes (eg Ubuntu) partition the disk with LVM, so you can make LVM snapshots
If your linux machine says something like this you are using LVM (this is from my laptop!)
$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
root vgxubuntu -wi-ao---- <930.37g
swap_1 vgxubuntu -wi-ao---- 976.00m
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