[GRLUG] rsync Weirdness

[L. V. Lammert]

OK, .. here's a good one for you guys:

We run rsnapshot jobs on all our servers, .. and they have been running
formany years.

Trying to add a new server to the mix, and the rsync jobs are throwing
some STRANGE errors, .. trying to do them manually creates the same
problem, AS DOES A MANUAL rsync I'm trying to do on two complete different
machines!

The rysnc job starts, receives the file listing, and then throws messages
like:

file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/cwd"
file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/root"
file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/exe"
file has vanished: "/proc/22401/cwd"
file has vanished: "/proc/22401/root"
file has vanished: "/proc/22401/exe"
file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/cwd"
file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/root"

Where /proc is not even in the directories being backed up! What might
cause the exact same problem on two totally separate machine environments?
(One pair is NTFS on Ubunu 10.4 -> OpenBSD 4.5, and the other is Debian ->
CentOS 5.4.)

	TIA!

	Lee