Hi Tridge, Sorry for mailing directly cause i have'nt receive any responses from my previous questions from your mailing list. Im' just new with rsync, and trying to evaluate it before fully using it for implementation for mirrroring our mail server. Some of my question from my previous mail are now solved. the last question that i left here before fully implement my mirror is regarding the copying of non readable file in the server. You have an option "ignore nonreadable" that used to bypass unreadable file an dnt show any error message to that. But what if that file is important and should be copied for mirroring . In short can rsync be able to forced nonreadable file or folder to be copied in a remote mirror server or a backup server? I've been encountering this such problem in mirrong using rsync their are some important files and folder that cannot be transferred and issueing an error "Permmission Denied". Some files that cannot be read are shadow,passwd, .bash_profile and alot more which shoulb be also included for backup. Regards, Michael P. Carel Systems Administrator TEAM PACIFIC CORPORATION FTI Taguig Metro, Manila. PHIL. Tel. Nos. (02) 838-50-05 local 363 (02) 838-84-38 direct