https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10445
Summary: flag to suppress link_stat error messages
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.1
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: core
AssignedTo: way...@samba.org
ReportedBy: m...@bitchx.it
QAContact: rsync...@samba.org
rsync complains about file arguments not existing.
For example, running this command to archive a selected set of files:
rsync -aq --remove-from-source --remove-source-files /var/log/messages*bz2
/backup/maillog*bz2 /backup/auth.log*bz2 backupserver::myname/
will issue the following errors if any of the given patters has no match:
rsync: link_stat "/var/log/messages*bz2" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/backups/maillog*bz2" failed: No such file or directory (2)
...
One particular application of commands similar to this is to periodically save
archives to a central backup server via cron. This causes cron to periodically
mail admins with the above errors. The option to divert this to /dev/null is
dangerous, as it would lose other error messages which ARE actually useful,
such as failures to reach the backup server.
A command line argument such as --ignore-missing-files that avods this type of
errors (link_stat) would do great.
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