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This is a patch to fix one annoyance of having rsync processes race: I usually keep our servers synced with the following script, run by cron. #!/bin/sh lockfile -r 2 -l 1000 /tmp/synchome.lock || exit 1 rsync -e ssh -avHP --delete zorro01:/home/\* /home >/dev/null rm -f /tmp/synchome.lock -- Sometimes my users (including myself) are in a hurry and syncronise files and directories in their homes themselves. This bypasses the lock above and two or more rsync processes are in a race. What happens is that the competing rsync proces...

Does rsync handle cases where files have been deleted off of the rsync server side after the client starts downloading from the server? I did a test run using two windows machines and the client puked, giving me some kind of file protection error. What happened is the client received it's list, starts downloading, all is well. Well, on the server side the files were moved out (or deleted) by