I am rsyncing several directories .... some of them have over 150,000 files ... I have seen this error messages several times: rsync: read error: Connection timed out rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(162) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (359475 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) I am rsyncing over 100mbit ethernet connections (on different subnets). There is plenty of disk space on both sides. Anyone have any idea what the problem is? I have to re-run the rsync if this error message popps up .. and then it gets a bit further syncing up the directories and then breaks again.. sometimes takes me upto 3 times to run the rsync for it to finally complete. It didn't start doing this till the list of files got really large. Ryan