Hi Rsyncers, I have now succesfully deployed rsync as a means to replicate our main production servers running SCOMBAG^D^D^D^D OpenServer. (Dont worry, we'll let the company die, and switch to something better..) To do so however, I had to split the dirs I sync (25GB orso), into smaller chuncks so it wont barf out regulary. I use filtering for that, and it works pretty well. At least, that was what I thought, as large jobs would barf out more often, than small jobs. It would stop, with an unexpected disconnect: 2003/11/14 20:21:46 [29414] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) when using --verbose --verbose --stats In the process I noticed a lot less barf outs, when not using --stats. It occured to me --stats might cause this, because of some negative results in the feedback, which in itself are weird: wrote 1747298 bytes read 116177995 bytes 81864.14 bytes/sec total size is -627215474 speedup is -5.32 So, why the negatives? Could it cause --stats to div by zero or something? Unfortunatly, after a earlier suggestion to trace the process, I managed to Panic the kernel in a split second, when running "trace -o file.out rsync...." so no more info from that angle. Thanks for any insights, Richard