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no. worse case is when you are "rolling back" that another user on your multi user system steals the disk space needed for the cat backupfile > file between the time the > zeros file out and the time cat is done -- leaving you with a broken file. That is why the unlink,rename method is popular -- at no time do you destroy the rollback until the new file is in place.
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