Using this command: rsync -azurvp /Users/spaceman/ -e ssh test@192.168.1.13:/home/test --timeout=60 wrote 2577422743 bytes read 79546 bytes 448846.72 bytes/sec total size is 2831489571 speedup is 1.10 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-8/rsync/main.c(576) It appears that I only get this error -after- files are sent. Steve Mallett