Hi All, Just to get the jist of things, trying to sort 5 diff rsyncs into the same process:) if I want to copy only say 2 dirs and everything under them when use include exclude, I have to define the dir first then the dir/all ? like : rsync -azr host::/top_dir --include "pub/" --include "pub/*" --include "ftp1/" --include "ftp1/*" --exclude "*" /local/top_dir TIA.