Should I worry about the "vanished files" warning?

[Vangelis Katsikaros]

Hi Kevin

Thanks for the tip. In my case it seems it's fine!

Regards
Vangelis

On 09/07/2017 08:51 PM, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> All it means is that rsync saw a file that needed transferring but the
> file was gone when rsync actually tried to open it.  So look at the
> filenames and decide if it is a problem or not.
> 
> On 09/07/2017 10:27 AM, Vangelis Katsikaros via rsync wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I would like to ask, when the "vanished files" warning is a sign that something bad is happening somewhere. I know that the `rsync-no-vanished` script can silence the warning, but I am wondering whether this is a sane thing to do.
>>
>> My guess based on https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3653#c26 and https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10356 is that it's fine, but I'd like to verify :)
>>
>> In my case, I have a batch process that creates ~500 files, some take 30 min, some take 8h to be created. The files are created in a tmp dir and are moved to a final dir when they are finished. Every 5 mins, I rsync the files from the final directory to a remote machine. I guess that during the sync process some files get re-written, when the batch process moves the fresh ones in the final dir.
>>
>> My cron entry:
>> flock -xn /lock_file -c                                       \
>> "/usr/bin/rsync -e \"ssh -C\" --bwlimit=512k                  \
>> --recursive --delay-updates --quiet --update                  \
>> --include=\"*/\" --include=\"*.xml\" --include=\"*.csv\"      \
>> --exclude=\"*\"                                               \
>> /LOCAL_SOURCE_DIR/ REMOTE_IP:/DEST_DIR/"
>>
>> Both source and destination are on 
>> $ rsync --version
>> rsync  version 3.1.0  protocol version 31
>>
>> Regards
>> Vangelis
>>
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