Gerald Brandt wrote at about 15:16:56 -0500 on Thursday, June 12, 2014:
 > On 2014-06-12, 2:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr AT majentis DOT com> 
 > > wrote:
 > >> Hi,
 > >>
 > >> I’m running the latest Cygwin on Windows 2003 Server (rsync 3.0.9) and
 > >> Ubuntu 14.04 (rsync (3.1.0).
 > >>
 > >> I make a shadow copy of the drive I’m backing up.
 > >>
 > >> I get a lot of ‘vanishing file’ messages from rsync.  Do the version of
 > >> rsync I’m running still have issues with file names?  This is a sample of
 > >> the filenames I’m having issues with:
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlotn.hpp"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlproc.h"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlsch.h"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlxptr.h"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlxsl.h"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/include/xmlxvm.h"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/mesg/lpxus.msb"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/mesg/lpxus.msg"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/mesg/lsxus.msb"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/mesg/lsxus.msg"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/xdk/readme.html"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.10-1.src.rpm"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/proftpd/proftpd-1.3.0a.tar.bz2"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/proftpd/proftpdadmin-1.04.tar.gz"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/svn_backup/Daily/osfiles(10.06.14).tgz"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/svn_backup/Daily/svn(10.06.14).dump"
 > >> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
 > >> "/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/svn_backup/Daily/svn(10.06.14).tgz"
 > >>
 > >> Is it the extra dots or brackets in the file path or name?  If so, how 
 > >> can I
 > >> get around this?  My clients last backup had 349416 "vanishing" files.
 > >>
 > > What that is 'supposed' to mean is that some other process deleted the
 > > file between the time rsync read the directory initially and when it
 > > walks the list down to this fie for comparison.   That shouldn't
 > > happen at all if you are working with volume snapshots.  Are you sure
 > > something isn't deleting the whole snapshot before the backup
 > > completes?
 > >
 > Pretty darn sure the snapshot isn't getting deleted.  BackupPC takes 
 > care of the snapshots with pre and post commands.  Veritas BackupExec 
 > was running, so I disabled that for tonight's run.  I had to install 
 > vshadow, so I know it's not doing anything without my permission.
 > 
 > I'll run rsync again tonight and see what happens.  It'll be an 
 > incremental though... unless I force a full.
 > 
 > Gerald

Why don't you just test to see if the files are still there (and what
the permissions are)?

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