Hi, I try to understand some implementation details and the consequences of those: the internal function change_dir() keeps track of a global variable curr_dir. If it is passed a path with '/../' it tries to sanitize the path before storing it in curr_dir. I searched for a problem where the path passed to rsync contained both '../' and symlinks. The leads to a discrepancy between the cwd and curr_dir, because change_dir (or clean_fname) remove the .. from the path without regarding the fact that it removes a symlink from the path with it. This in turn probably leads to problems with the exclude option. Is this a bug or are there any config options on the server side to prevent this? I checked with rsync 3.0.5. Thanks, Arne