I'm trying to do this rsync -r --delete /var/backups/svnCode.fromflipper/ /smbdir/path/to/backup/location/ but i get this error message... failed to set permissions on svnCode-400-2/db/transactions : Operation not permitted rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578) there's nothing apparently special about that directory... other than the fact that it is empty the destination is a directory on a win2000 server that is mounted like this //smbhost/CoopMetrics /smbdir/coopmetrics smbfs auto,username=user,password=password,uid=root,gid=cocodevel,fmask=660,dmask=770 0 0 what's going on here? thanks brad -- Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>