Ok, so rsync seemed easy enough to get going, but now it seems that it's trying to sync the directory "." and it's throwing an error because of it: opening tcp connection to 10.8.0.1 port 873 opening connection using --server --sender -vvvr . proto1 RSYNC_PASSWORD environment variable ignored receiving file list ... recv_file_name(.) received 1 names done recv_file_list done get_local_name count=1 /home/sill/rsynctest/ generator starting pid=16028 count=1 deleting in . delete_in_dir(.) delta-transmission enabled recv_generator(.,0) generate_files phase=1 recv_files(1) starting recv_files(.) recv_files phase=1 generate_files phase=2 recv_files phase=2 generate_files phase=3 recv_files finished generate_files finished sent 105 bytes received 107 bytes 141.33 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1173) _exit_cleanup(code=23, file=main.c, line=1173): about to call exit(23) This is my command line for doing the sync: rsync --delete -rvvv --password-file=/home/sill/.rsync-pass rsync://proto1@10.8.0.1/proto1 ~/rsynctest/ Anybody have any insights? I poked Google for a while but it's really difficult to compose a search phrase for that error along with the . directory. -- Donovan Niesen dniesen at gmail.com