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...ch that > rsync will always use them without them being explicitly set when it's > called? Search the rsync manual page for popt . You can "overload" the -a option to include the extra options you need; create a file .popt in your home directory and add a line: rsync alias -a -aXAH Paul

I use rsync a lot, it's a wonderful tool. I use it almost exclusively on Linux systems and it would be really handy if I could set a number of options which would always be used when I run rsync. These would be in addition to -a which is useful but not quite enough. In particular I always want to copy extended attributes (-X), ACLs (-A) and hardlinks (-H). I've recently lost a number