--- rsync-3.0.7/options.c	2011-01-25 22:48:48.321864668 +0200
+++ rsync-3.0.7.vanished/options.c	2011-01-25 22:45:00.289582095 +0200
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 int checksum_seed = 0;
 int inplace = 0;
 int delay_updates = 0;
+int ignore_vanished = 0;
 long block_size = 0; /* "long" because popt can't set an int32. */
 char *skip_compress = NULL;
 item_list dparam_list = EMPTY_ITEM_LIST;
@@ -574,6 +575,7 @@
   {"delete-delay",     0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &delete_during, 2, 0, 0 },
   {"delete-after",     0,  POPT_ARG_NONE,   &delete_after, 0, 0, 0 },
   {"delete-excluded",  0,  POPT_ARG_NONE,   &delete_excluded, 0, 0, 0 },
+  {"ignore-vanished",  0,  POPT_ARG_NONE,   &ignore_vanished, 0, 0, 0 },
   {"remove-sent-files",0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &remove_source_files, 2, 0, 0 }, /* deprecated */
   {"remove-source-files",0,POPT_ARG_VAL,    &remove_source_files, 1, 0, 0 },
   {"force",            0,  POPT_ARG_VAL,    &force_delete, 1, 0, 0 },
--- rsync-3.0.7/sender.c	2009-12-13 03:23:03.000000000 +0200
+++ rsync-3.0.7.vanished/sender.c	2011-01-25 22:48:26.834861230 +0200
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 extern int inplace;
 extern int batch_fd;
 extern int write_batch;
+extern int ignore_vanished;
 extern struct stats stats;
 extern struct file_list *cur_flist, *first_flist, *dir_flist;
 
@@ -282,12 +283,14 @@
 		fd = do_open(fname, O_RDONLY, 0);
 		if (fd == -1) {
 			if (errno == ENOENT) {
-				enum logcode c = am_daemon
-				    && protocol_version < 28 ? FERROR
+				if (!ignore_vanished) {
+					enum logcode c = am_daemon
+						&& protocol_version < 28 ? FERROR
 							     : FWARNING;
-				io_error |= IOERR_VANISHED;
-				rprintf(c, "file has vanished: %s\n",
-					full_fname(fname));
+					io_error |= IOERR_VANISHED;
+					rprintf(c, "file has vanished: %s\n",
+						full_fname(fname));
+                }
 			} else {
 				io_error |= IOERR_GENERAL;
 				rsyserr(FERROR_XFER, errno,