Hi! Since two years ago, this has been marked as "RESOLVED FIXED" upstream: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3653
It's not a real fix, merely a nasty hacky script to post-process rsync's output and ignore this particular error. Still, the included script (rsync-no-vanished) is missing from the Debian package. John Van Essen wrote: > Instead of attacking the symptom, attack the problem. You are backing > up temporary files that are not needed on a restore. These "vanished" > messages actually help pinpoint directories whose contents should be > excluded, in this case via --exclude=/drbd/var/www/tmp/* While indeed _most_ such churn comes from temporary files, there are hundreds of places they can happen. Just from three last rsync spams I got: * icinga checkresults spool * a session file from one of customers' php site * a new mail inside a Maildir/ so am I supposed to maintain pages worth of --exclude= arguments, adding a new one every time I receive a rsync spam? And, believe me or not, actual non-temporary files do get removed too -- usually mails but on your boxes it might be something else. But, as upstream is apparently not willing to fix this in a clean way, please at least include the rsync-no-vanished workaround. Meow! -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
