Matthias, We had the same problem with the rsync timing out. We Rsync'ed to a second harddisk ( hdc1) and the timeout occurred. When rsyncing to the first harddisk, containing the whole OS ( Redhat 7.2), it worked without a problem. We tried Mandriva 2007 with the same setup and result. But the error output gave us a hint, and we tried the -W option. It worked for Mandriva aswell as Redhat. Ronald Vink. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed