Hi, I noticed this problem mentioned in the known issues: Q: Transfers die with something like rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at ../src/io.c(463) A: Sometimes fatal error messages from the remote machine can be lost on the way to the client; you should investigate on the server for something stopping the transmission. The most common cause is that the destination disk is full. I noticed that this happens from my linux-mandrake desktop, but not from my OpenBSD firewall. And I am uploading the same nfs shared file to my ISP. This is what I did: rsync -e ssh -T /tmp file host:dir/ Sounds like diskspace is not only problem. # Han -- (I hate large) \||/ Murray's Rule: Any country with democratic in (sigs) Oo. | @___oo the title isn't. /\ /\ / (__,,,,| ) /^\) ^\/ _) ) /^\/ _) ) _ / / _) /\ )/\/ || | )_) < > |(,,) )__) || / \)___)\ | \____( )___) )___ \______(_______;;; __;;;