HI, I have a 68GB of filesystem to be synchronized from 1 filesystem to another. However, it is really taking more than 4 hours to just build the file-list, and it's still in the process of building the file-list as show below, together with my script. I broke-down the rsync process by transferring the sub-filesystems within each main filesystem, to speed up the transfer rate. I'm using rsync version 2.5.6. This scenario did not previously occur, except today, when it seemed to have taken forever to to just build the list. This problem is not yet resolved. Could you tell me where did I go wrong? Is there a way right now which I could speed up the building of the file-list? Thanks in advance. ls -l /cad/workspace/ total 12 drwxr-s--- 2 rob da 512 Oct 18 2002 bin drwxrwsr-x 35 peter da 1024 Jul 18 10:34 cad drwxrwx--- 2 root da 512 May 18 2002 lost+found $ cat ./myScript.sh date |tee -a /tmp/wp00-7.log rsync -avz --delete /cad/workspace/bin /fs2/wp00/ |tee -a /tmp/wp00-7.log rsync -avz --delete /cad/workspace/cad /fs2/wp00/ |tee -a /tmp/wp00-7.log date |tee -a /tmp/wp00-7.log $ ./myScript.sh Tue Aug 5 14:50:38 SG 2003 building file list ... done wrote 91 bytes read 20 bytes 222.00 bytes/sec total size is 198768 speedup is 1790.70 building file list ...