On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:43:40AM -0400, Anthony DiSante wrote: > rsync -avvv --delete --exclude /Volumes macbox::rootpath /mnt/bkup/macbox You need to also exclude this: --exclude=/dev/fd/ Otherwise the OS X filesystem has a loop back to the root dir, which causes rsync to keep scanning more and more files. ..wayne..