Rsync mac file has vanished

The first rsync takes long, so that happens often between start and finish.

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By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Sometimes rsync gives the following message: I would think my backup is incomplete, how can I solve this? Timo Timo 4, 18 I have looked to the relevant path and they look like regular files, for example like files of scripting I have created in the past.

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Are these removed on the source system? If on the destination system, it might be two rsync s competing. Have you tried rsync over ssh instead NFS?

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I am transferring data from one drive to the other, and I am not changing anything on the source meanwhile. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Are you saying that rsync is halting upon reporting the "vanished file" messages?

If you are backing up a live filesystem, it is always possible to get the "vanished" message from rsync. Between the time that rsync adds a file to its transfer list and the time that rsync actually gets around to reading it, a file can "vanish" for any number of legitimate reasons e. Note that some applications work around limitations in NFS file locking by creating and removing hidden lock files, and it's possible that rsync may be seeing some of those. I would suggest to keep your source filesystem as quiescent as possible while it is being backed up.

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Ideally, no one other than the backup process should be accessing it, but I realize that that may not be feasible. If your source filesystem is on an LVM logical volume, then you could consider creating a read-only snapshot to use as your backup source.

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This is a problem with special characters in the file names, as discussed here: By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. How can I prevent vanishing error when using rsync with an nfs mount? Ask Question.

RsyncX - "file has vanished"

Any suggestions? Would it be faster to just rsync over SSH? Evan Evan 1 2 8. Is there anything changing the contents of this share after rsync has built it's file list? DerfK Yes, some of the files will probably change so I would expect the error on a few files, just not every file after so many had been transfered? Or would I need to unmount the NFS share from other clients for it to work properly? Steven Monday Steven Monday Thanks for your answer! That's why I was thinking something about the NFS mount was at fault?

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So rsync is reporting that files you definitely know to exist are vanishing? That sounds bad. Yeah, it's definitely saying files that are there have vanished and it seems to happen after a specific amount of time goes by. I've run rysnc a few times and each time it copies roughly the same amount in the same amount of time before deciding every other file has vanished. Not sure what would be causing that though because the Ubuntu NFS server has worked without problems for a few years and it doesn't seem to happen if I use a cp command instead of rsync.

I'll try rsync without using NFS and update you in a few days if it works!