Hi, I currently use rsync to keep numerous machines in sync around our company. for the most part it works flawlessly. Every so often when copying or updating some iso images we keep I get the following error: inflate returned -3 (0 bytes) 0:09:03 rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(416) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (2494426 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151) Can someone tell me what causes this and the proper way to correct it. Most of the time if I delete the target iso and resync it fixes the problem but this is not the right answer since it requires me to download several hundred Mb of data again. I am using rsync-2.5.4-2 from RedHat Linux 7.3. -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....