I may be doing overkill in my current backup scheme. I am making
Veritas snapshots of my "active" volumes - not real busy, maybe a dozen
files written to every 10 minutes or so - and then doing rsync to make
remote copies of these volumes.

Do you think this is being too cautious? I ran an experiment of using
rsync on a text file that was currently being written to, and the only
bad result was the last line was left in a partial state. Is this
about what I can expect if I skip the snapshot step? The only type
files that would be changing during backups would be text files.

The snapshots are fast, but the "SnapBack" steps take about 40 minutes
to complete, so I would like to eliminate that step if it safe to do
so.

Boyd