Hi, from time to time my rsync backup gives a different return value other than 0. Here is the log: file has vanished: "/root/tmp.BNM19470" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.BsI19474" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.FHo19468" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.NCY19482" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.WIe19484" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.cMU19476" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.hSb19472" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.uEe19480" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.xmp19478" rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1506) [generator=3.0.5] I really have no idea where they can come from other than rsync himself. Is this by any chance possible? Sys: RHEL5x86_64, sender+receiver rsync 3.0.5 cmdline: --excludefrom=excludeDirs_xyz --delete-excluded -havz --stats --delete example of exclude file: /srv/htmlexports rsync summary: Number of files: 275673 Number of files transferred: 5861 Total file size: 328.00G bytes Total transferred file size: 1.10G bytes Literal data: 987.48M bytes Matched data: 115.43M bytes File list size: 4.58M File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 717.60K Total bytes received: 775.28M Thx Rainer sent 717.60K bytes received 775.28M bytes 5.30M bytes/sec total size is 328.00G speedup is 422.69