Try to use include list: --include-from=includes.txt I can ssh into rh8 machine and can rsync to machine not using includes file. When I use the include file --include-from=includes.txt + /aBackup/ - /* What I get is: receiving file list ... done wrote 50 bytes read 283 bytes 60. total size is 3021 speedup is 9.07 There are 4,396,416 bytes in the folder... Help...