On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:27 +1100, Daryl Sayers wrote: > rsync -x --delete -azHv myremote:/ myremote:/usr myremote:/usr/local /machines/myremote/ > > This worked EXCEPT the /usr/local/ was put into /machines/myremote/local/ > and not /machines/myremote/usr/local/. You want --relative . -- Matt