I am having a problem with implementing a slight modification of the "backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental" example from <http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html>. When rsync runs, I end up getting stat errors that the file doesn't exist in the backup-dir location. The backup server is running rsyncd, and without the --backup and --backup-dir options set, I get a good clean backup. I'm also not quite clear on the fact that from the stat error messages (below), the --backup-dir option is not clearing the --suffix option as stated in the man page. I'm thinking maybe I have an issue somewhere involving the --backup-dir option. My rsync command looks like this (from tonight's attempts): backup: command /usr/bin/rsync --force --ignore-errors --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/etc/rsync/exclude.txt --delete --backup --backup-dir=/tue -a --eahfs --numeric-ids --password-file=/etc/rsync/secure.txt --stats --delete-after --bwlimit=120 -z / puma@rsyncserver::puma/current The stat error messages look like this (snipped for bandwidth considerations): stat "tue/private/var/db/dhcpd_leases~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/cups/access_log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/cups/access_log.O~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/daily.out~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/diskspacemonitor.log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/mail.log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/system.log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory stat "tue/private/var/log/system.log.0.gz~" (in puma) failed: No such file or directory The module root for the above module looks like this (via ls -al): drwxr-xr-x 8 root admin 272 Feb 12 13:27 . drwxrwx--- 16 root admin 544 Feb 20 11:38 .. drwxrwxr-t 24 root admin 816 Feb 2 11:24 current drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 20 16:15 fri drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 23 16:15 mon drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 19 16:15 thu drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 24 16:15 tue drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 18 16:15 wed The rsyncd.conf file section for the above module is: logfile = /var/log/rsyncd.log pidfile = /var/run/rsyncd.pid lockfile = /var/run/rsyncd.lock secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets uid = root transfer logging = no [puma] path = /Volumes/backups/xserves/puma comment = Puma Xserve backup space auth users = puma read only = no The --stats output provides: Number of files: 62552 Number of files transferred: 38 Total file size: 1522090824 bytes Total transferred file size: 3095727 bytes Literal data: 2152606 bytes Matched data: 951076 bytes File list size: 2828136 Total bytes written: 2961050 Total bytes read: 25891 wrote 2961050 bytes read 25891 bytes 7649.02 bytes/sec total size is 1522090824 speedup is 509.58 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(639) backup: rsync complete from puma at Tue Feb 24 16:21:34 EST 2004, status=23 I am running 2.6.0 (via RsyncX 2.0 for Mac OS X) on Mac OS X servers (10.2.8 on both ends). Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I have searched the archives and faq-o-matic and can't seem to find anything. Sean