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...rm-backup servers with an acceptable amount of data loss - mostly nothing! I have found; however, a race condition exists between users and rsync that causes a 'vanished file' error. This race condition is exacerbated when the link speed between the systems is slow such as a T1. rsync -avpozO -e ssh /somedirectory/ backupserver:/somedirectory/ During normal system operation, users are allowed to delete files that they own in 'somedirectory'. This is especially true in /home. When rsync is instantiated, the file list is created and the transfer begins. The problem comes up w...