Hi there I am currently useing rsync to mirroring my ftp server. And I have do a successful transfer in the firt time. But gets errors in the second time I try to run the same commend. environment: RedHat 8.0 commend: rsync -avz --delete -e ssh user@host:home/path/ftp /path/ftp error messages: Password: receiving file list ... opendir(bin): Permission denied opendir(etc): Permission denied done IO error encountered - skipping file deletion send_files failed to open /path/ftp/some-path/.notar: Permission denied wrote 32 bytes read 59957 bytes 6314.63 bytes/sec total size is 4290872998 speedup is 71527.66 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(926) Is this a permission problem ??? Thanks in advanced Damian