Hi, After some postings and advice I did some tests. It seems that I should rather backup to linux partition then a vfat partition. Using it to vfat a lot errors/complaints and all the files not at dest dir. Using it to ext3 - no errors/complaints and all files at dest dir. It seems then that rsync was meant for linux. Use it as * super user *. My assumptions correct? Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning