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Hello, I'm a relative newbie to rsync, I use it to backup (mirror) a bunch of Windows boxes. I mount them using samba (to avoid having to install the cygwin version on each box) then run (using rsync 2.5.2 run from crontab) rsync -vuaz --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/root/bin/rsync.exclude \ --modify-window=2 /mnt/pc/machine/share /backup/machine/share It works like a charm, except for some excludes that won't work -- rsync still copies the files. Here's my exclude file: [~/bin]% ls rsync.exclude -rw-r--r-- 1...