As reported in FS#69614 the lock should be before the delete for when another sync job is running rsync can't move the files as they are removed. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69614
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As reported in FS#69614 the lock should be before the delete for when another sync job is running rsync can't move the files as they are removed. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69614