i read the archived post at: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-October/004986.html and was wondering whether this is documented/discussed elsewhere. i have had two such occurences myself recently, where rsync completed successfully, but the files don't get sync-ed (the target file is garbled). in one case i had a +- 25MB tar.bz2 file and the other +- 20MB tar.gz. i used rsync 2.4.6, librsync 0.9.5, redhat 7.2). only after i added the -c option (checksum) did the files get synced properly. -- dave