Dear Peter, I finally got to where I could do a little testing, and think you'll be perfectly happy if you just change -vv to -v. If it still shows files being "transferred" but no data at the same time, try eliminating the "--partial" argument and see what happens. Either it suddenly will start taking hours for the transfer (retransferring them entirely) or it will shut up and soldier. The behavior you're seeing is exactly as if a "partial" transfer is being somehow triggered for files that are really up to date, so it sends the "rest of the file", which turns out to be of size zero. Maybe even an rsync bug? Or perhaps an oddity triggered by server-side scripts, as I noted, that rsync copes with smoothly BECAUSE you are using the --partial feature and it uses it to avoid an unneeded transfer. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/signed-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum