hi I'm trying to rsync a directory on my local host to a linux host using the command: rsync -a -v -e ssh "/Users/sir/downloads/CarApp" "sir@192.168.20.1:/home/sir/backup" --progress At first glance, it seems that rsync works perfect, but when I read the files on my linux destination host, all the files are empty! (0 bytes) It is quite confusing. local host: rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 (Mac OS X 10.2.4) linux host: rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 (SuSE Linux 7.3) If I leave the -a away, things get even worse > rsync -ve ssh downloads/CarApp sir@obelix:~/backup/ca sir@obelix's password: skipping directory downloads/CarApp wrote 17 bytes read 20 bytes 8.22 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 Is there an (obvious) solution for this problem (I'm new to rsync...)? Has anybody else experienced this? alfredo aldundi