Thanks Matt since morning I am running some real time tests with 7 GB datafile as you had suggested I should post back the results as soon as that finishes...and we could find out whether rsync algorithm works as it should. lsk. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rsync-help-needed...-t1170765.html#a3096498 Sent from the Samba - rsync forum at Nabble.com.