On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Steve Howie wrote: > rsync --progress --recursive --links --stats arthur::test/ /var/tmp/haggis You didn't use -t to tell it to preserve the file times. Without that, you must use -c to checksum the files to figure out if they need to be resent or not (which is much slower than just using -t). ..wayne..