Rsync vanished source files

Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I get a lot of mails from cronjobs with rsync. And I've tried to ignore it with wrapper script like this:. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more.

How to ignore rsync warning about vanished files? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 10 months ago. Active 4 years, 10 months ago. And rsync does not finish successfully.

How can I skip files that do not exist on source machine? I'm using saltstack to rule machines, so I call:. The --ignore-missing-args option was added some time between version 3. The online version 3. But the git repository indicates this option was added in Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 7 years ago. Active 7 years ago. Viewed 10k times. I have logs for multiple services that look like: service1. PadraicCunningham there's no exception. I thought you were maybe using subprocess or pexpect — Padraic Cunningham. PadraicCunningham sorry, I forgot to include it in my post.

It will simply ignore source arguments that doesn't exist. The reason is these files were existing while rsync is building the list of files to transfer but they are removed before transferring. It is a warning massage, not an error. However, you should try to find out why these file was deleted, it is maybe important.

To ignore this warning, you can use --exclude option as above question or use -ignore-missing-args rsync option, it makes rsync ignores vanished files: --ignore-missing-args ignore missing source args without error it maybe helps.

You can provide patterns to this arguments as well. The error means that rsync can't find the files anymore which were existing while building the list to transfer. These vanished-file errors happens when a file was initially found to be present and later is no longer there.

In some cases it also happens when the source files are corrupted or have invalid characters in the name so fsck is advised. Basically this is a warning, not an error, so nothing to worry about, since the state of each destination file reflects a state that the corresponding source files during the run. If it is causing problem because of exit value is non-zero, this can be solved by the following wrapper script source :.

This is further discussed in: Bug - Reduce the need for the "vanished files" warning. Or simply with modern bash :. My answer might be a special use case but I felt it was worth noting, so people don't lose data if they fall under this case. I was getting that message for several files whilst performing a routine backup of drives via rsync. So before you go out an suppress or ignore the message outright, it might be wise to just run a health check on your drive just to be safe.

Not sure which system you're using but I believe this is related to the mount options of your disk. It resolves when I disable it and rsync completes without any errors.

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