On 2014-06-12, 3:28 PM, backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org wrote:
> 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)?
>
>
The files are still there, but I checked the original filesystem, not 
the shadow copy.  The shadow has already been deleted.

-- 
Gerald Brandt
Majentis Technologies
204-229-6595
gbr AT majentis DOT com


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